119-hr628

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 628 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 628

 To amend the Public Health Service Act to eliminate consideration of 
 the income of organ recipients in providing reimbursement of expenses 
 to donating individuals, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 22, 2025

 Mr. Obernolte (for himself and Ms. DelBene) 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 eliminate consideration of 
 the income of organ recipients in providing reimbursement of expenses 
 to donating individuals, 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 ``Honor Our Living Donors Act''.

SEC. 2. NO CONSIDERATION OF INCOME OF ORGAN RECIPIENT.

 

Section 377 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274f) is 
amended--

    (1) by redesignating subsections
            (c) through

    (f) as 
 subsections
            (d) through

    (g) , respectively;

    (2) by inserting after subsection

    (b) the following:
 ``
            (c) No Consideration of Income of Organ Recipient.--The recipient 
of a grant under this section, in providing reimbursement to a donating 
individual through such grant, shall not give any consideration to the 
income of the organ recipient.''; and

    (3) in subsection

    (f) , as so redesignated--
        (A) in paragraph

    (1) , by striking ``subsection
            (c) (1) '' and inserting ``subsection
            (d) (1) ''; and
        (B) in paragraph

    (2) , by striking ``subsection
            (c) (2) '' and inserting ``subsection
            (d) (2) ''.

SEC. 3. REMOVAL OF EXPECTATION OF PAYMENTS BY ORGAN RECIPIENTS.

 

Section 377

    (e) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
274f

    (e) ), as redesignated by 

section 2, is amended--

    (1) in paragraph

    (1) , by adding ``or'' at the end;

    (2) in paragraph

    (2) , by striking ``; or'' and inserting a 
 period; and

    (3) by striking paragraph

    (3) .

SEC. 4. ANNUAL REPORT.

 

Section 377 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274f), as 
amended by sections 2 and 3, is further amended by adding at the end 
the following:
 ``

    (h) Annual Report.--Not later than December 31 of each year, the 
Secretary shall--
 ``

    (1) prepare, submit to the Congress, and make public a 
 report on whether grants under this section provided adequate 
 funding during the preceding fiscal year to reimburse all 
 donating individuals participating in the grant program under 
 this section for all qualifying expenses; and
 ``

    (2) include in each such report--
 ``
        (A) the estimated number of all donating 
 individuals participating in the grant program under 
 this section who did not receive reimbursement for all 
 qualifying expenses during the preceding fiscal year; 
 and
 ``
        (B) the total amount of funding that is estimated 
 to be necessary to fully reimburse all donating 
 individuals participating in the grant program under 
 this section for all qualifying expenses.''.
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