[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2544 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2544

 To improve the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2023

  Mr. Bucshon (for himself and Ms. Kelly of Illinois) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To improve the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement 
and Transplantation Network Act''.

SEC. 2. ORGAN PROCUREMENT AND TRANSPLANTATION NETWORK.

    Section 372 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``The Secretary shall by contract'' 
                and inserting ``In General--The Secretary shall'';
                    (B) by striking ``establishment and'' and inserting 
                ``continued''; and
                    (C) by striking the second and third sentences and 
                inserting ``The Secretary may award grants, contracts, 
                or cooperative agreements, as the Secretary determines 
                appropriate, for purposes of carrying out this 
                section.''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``(b)(1) The Organ 
        Procurement'' and all that follows through the end of 
        subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Composition.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Organ Procurement and 
        Transplantation Network shall--
                    ``(A) be operated through awards to public or 
                private entities made by the Secretary that are 
                distinct from the awards made to support the 
                organization tasked with supporting the board of 
                directors described in subparagraph (B); and''.

SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.

    Title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended--
            (1) in section 371(b)(1)(H)(i)(III) (42 U.S.C. 
        273(b)(1)(H)(i)(III)), by striking ``histocompatability'' and 
        inserting ``histocompatibility'';
            (2) in section 374(c)(2) (42 U.S.C. 274b(c)(2)), by 
        striking ``section 371 or 373'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``section 371, 372, or 373'';
            (3) in section 375 (42 U.S.C. 274c)--
                    (A) by striking the comma at the end of each of 
                paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``transplants, 
                and'' and inserting ``transplants; and''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (4), by redesignating clauses (i) 
                and (ii) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; 
                and
            (4) in section 376 (42 U.S.C. 274d)--
                    (A) by striking ``February 10 of 1991 and of each 
                second year thereafter'' and inserting ``2 years after 
                the date of enactment of the Securing the U.S. Organ 
                Procurement and Transplantation Network Act and every 
                second year thereafter''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Committee on Labor and Human 
                Resources of the Senate.'' and inserting ``Committee on 
                Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the 
                Senate,''.

SEC. 4. GAO REVIEW.

    Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall--
            (1) to the extent data are available, conduct a review of 
        the historical financing of the Organ Procurement and 
        Transplantation Network described in section 372 of the Public 
        Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274), including the utilization 
        of registration fees among entities that have previously been 
        awarded contracts under such section 372; and
            (2) submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 
        and Pensions and the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the 
        Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
        Representatives a report on the review under paragraph (1), 
        including related recommendations, as applicable.
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