[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1873 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1873

   To delay the effective date of the final rule regarding the Organ 
                Procurement and Transplantation Network.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 5, 1999

Mr. Sessions (for himself, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Warner, Mr. Torricelli, 
   Mr. Mack, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Nickles, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. 
   Ashcroft, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Feingold, Mr. 
Cleland, Mr. Hollings, Mr. Breaux, Mr. Graham, Ms. Collins, Mr. Grams, 
Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Murkowski, Mr. Gorton, Mr. Landrieu, Mr. 
 Robb, and Mrs. Lincoln) introduced the following bill; which was read 
 twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
                                Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
   To delay the effective date of the final rule regarding the Organ 
                Procurement and Transplantation Network.

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

SECTION 1. NULLIFICATION AND REQUIREMENT FOR FURTHER RULEMAKING.

    (a) Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
final rule relating to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation 
Network, promulgated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and 
published in the Federal Register on April 2, 1998 (63 Fed. Reg. 16296 
et. seq. adding part 121 to title 42, Code of Federal Regulations) and 
amended on October 20, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 56649 et seq.)), shall have 
no force or legal effect.
    (b) No Implementation or Authority.--The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall not implement or exercise further regulatory 
authority with respect to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation 
Network, as well as regulatory authority under sections 1102, 1106, 
1138, and 1871 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1302, 1306, 1320b-
8, and 1395hh), prior to the date of enactment of amendments to 
reauthorize and revise part H of title III of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 273 et seq.).
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