[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4086 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4086

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

                             April 9, 2002

 Mr. Wilson of South Carolina introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and 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 ``Floyd D. Spence 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:

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

    ``(a) In General.--
            ``(1) Grants.--The Secretary may make grants to qualified 
        organ procurement organizations described in section 371 for 
        the purpose of assisting such entities in carrying out programs 
        to coordinate the activities of eligible hospitals that relate 
        to seeking organ donations, in order to make progress toward 
        the goal of increasing the rate of organ donation for the 
        eligible hospitals involved.
            ``(2) Eligible Hospital.--For purposes of this section, the 
        term ``eligible hospital'' means 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.
    ``(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 to be carried out under such grant will be 
carried out jointly--
            ``(1) by representatives of the eligible hospitals involved 
        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) 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 2002 through 2006.''.
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