[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5464 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5464

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to carry out 
  programs to improve recovery rates for organs in eligible hospitals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 12, 2000

  Mr. Inslee introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to carry out 
  programs to improve recovery rates for organs in eligible hospitals.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Organ Coordination Improvement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM OF GRANTS REGARDING HOSPITAL ORGAN 
              DONATION COORDINATORS.

    Part H of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 273 
et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 374 the following 
section:

``SEC. 374A. GRANTS REGARDING HOSPITAL ORGAN DONATION COORDINATORS.

    ``(a) In General.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may make grants to 
        qualifying organ donation entities for the purpose of assisting 
        such entities in carrying out programs to coordinate the 
        activities of eligible hospitals that relate to seeking organ 
        donations, including coordination with qualified organ 
        procurement organizations under section 371, in order to make 
        progress toward the goal of increasing the rate of organ 
        donation for the eligible hospitals with respect to which such 
        grants are made.
            ``(2) Eligible hospital.--For purposes of this section, an 
        eligible hospital is a public or nonprofit private hospital 
        that performs significant trauma care, or a public or nonprofit 
        private hospital or consortium of such hospitals that serves a 
        population base of not fewer than 200,000 individuals.
            ``(3) Qualifying organ donation entity.--For purposes of 
        this section, a qualifying organ donation entity is--
                    ``(A) an eligible hospital; or
                    ``(B) a qualified organ procurement organization 
                under section 371.
    ``(b) Preference in Making Grants.--In making grants under 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall give preference to an applicant if 
the Secretary determines that the probable result of such a grant would 
be a significant increase in the rate of organ donation for the 
eligible hospital involved.
    ``(c) Administration of Coordination Program.--A condition for the 
receipt of a grant under subsection (a) is that the applicant involved 
agree that the program under such subsection will be carried out 
jointly--
            ``(1) by representatives from the eligible hospital and the 
        qualified organ procurement organization with respect to which 
        the grant is made; and
            ``(2) by such other entities as the representatives 
        referred to in paragraph (1) may designate.
    ``(d) Evaluations; Report to Congress.--
            ``(1) Evaluations.--The Secretary shall, directly or 
        through contracts with public or private entities, provide for 
        annual evaluations of programs carried out pursuant to 
        subsection (a) in order to determine the extent to which the 
        programs have increased the rate of organ donation for the 
        eligible hospitals involved.
            ``(2) Report.--Not later than one year after the date on 
        which amounts are first appropriated pursuant to subsection 
        (e), and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the 
        appropriate committees of the Congress a report that summarizes 
        evaluations under paragraph (1).
    ``(e) Funding.--
            ``(1) Authorization of appropriations.--For the purpose of 
        carrying out this section, there are authorized to be 
        appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the 
        fiscal years 2001 through 2005.
            ``(2) Allocation.--Of the amounts appropriated under 
        paragraph (1) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve 50 
        percent for grants under subsection (a) to qualifying organ 
        donation entities described in paragraph (3)(A) of such 
        subsection and 50 percent for grants under subsection (a) to 
        qualifying organ donation entities described in paragraph 
        (3)(B) of such subsection.''.
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