119-s532

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 532 Introduced in Senate

    (IS) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 532

 To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect 
 registration fees from members of the Organ Procurement and 
 Transplantation Network, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 February 12, 2025

 Mr. Grassley (for himself and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
 Education, Labor, and Pensions

_______________________________________________________________________

 A BILL

 To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect 
 registration fees from members of 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 ``OPTN Fee Collection Authority 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

    (b)

    (2) --
        (A) by moving the margins of subparagraphs
            (M) through
        (O) 2 ems to the left;
        (B) in subparagraph
        (A) --
            (i) in clause
            (i) , by striking ``, and'' 
 and inserting ``; and''; and
            (ii) in clause
            (ii) , by striking the comma 
 at the end and inserting a semicolon;
            (C) in subparagraph
            (C) , by striking ``twenty-four-
 hour telephone service'' and inserting ``24-hour 
 telephone or information technology service'';
            (D) in each of subparagraphs
        (B) through
            (M) , by 
 striking the comma at the end and inserting a 
 semicolon;
        (E) in subparagraph
        (N) , by striking 
 ``transportation, and'' and inserting 
 ``transportation;'';
        (F) in subparagraph
        (O) , by striking the period and 
 inserting a semicolon; and
        (G) by adding at the end the following:
 ``
        (P) encourage the integration of electronic health 
 records systems through application programming interfaces (or 
 successor technologies) among hospitals, organ procurement 
 organizations, and transplant centers, including the use of 
 automated electronic hospital referrals and the grant of 
 remote, electronic access to hospital electronic health records 
 of potential donors by organ procurement organizations, in a 
 manner that complies with the privacy regulations promulgated 
 under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 
 of 1996, at part 160 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations, 
 and subparts A, C, and E of part 164 of such title (or any 
 successor regulations); and
 ``
        (Q) consider establishing a dashboard to display the 
 number of transplants performed, the types of transplants 
 performed, the number and types of organs that entered the 
 Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network system and failed 
 to be transplanted, and other appropriate statistics, which 
 should be updated more frequently than annually.''; and

    (2) by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (d) Registration Fees.--
 ``

    (1) In general.--The Secretary may collect registration 
 fees from any member of the Organ Procurement and 
 Transplantation Network for each transplant candidate such 
 member places on the list described in subsection

    (b)

    (2)
        (A)
            (i) . 
 Such registration fees shall be collected and distributed only 
 to support the operation of the Organ Procurement and 
 Transplantation Network. Such registration fees are authorized 
 to remain available until expended.
 ``

    (2) Collection.--The Secretary may collect the 
 registration fees under paragraph

    (1) directly or through 
 awards made under subsection

    (b)

    (1)
        (A) .
 ``

    (3) Distribution.--Any amounts collected under this 
 subsection shall--
 ``
        (A) be credited to the currently applicable 
 appropriation, account, or fund of the Department of 
 Health and Human Services as discretionary offsetting 
 collections; and
 ``
        (B) be available, only to the extent and in the 
 amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts, to 
 distribute such fees among awardees described in 
 subsection

    (b)

    (1)
        (A) .
 ``

    (4) Transparency.--The Secretary shall--
 ``
        (A) promptly post on the website of the Organ 
 Procurement and Transplantation Network--
 ``
            (i) the amount of registration fees 
 collected under this subsection from each 
 member of the Organ Procurement and 
 Transplantation Network; and
 ``
            (ii) a list of activities such fees are 
 used to support; and
 ``
        (B) update the information posted pursuant to 
 subparagraph
        (A) , as applicable for each calendar 
 quarter for which fees are collected under paragraph

    (1) .
 ``

    (5) GAO review.--Not later than 2 years after the date of 
 enactment of this subsection, the Comptroller General of the 
 United States shall, to the extent data are available--
 ``
        (A) conduct a review concerning the activities 
 under this subsection; and
 ``
        (B) 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 such review, 
 including related recommendations, as applicable.
 ``

    (6) Sunset.--The authority to collect registration fees 
 under paragraph

    (1) shall expire on the date that is 3 years 
 after the date of enactment of the OPTN Fee Collection 
 Authority Act.''.
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