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HB587: relative to organ donation on a driver's license.

Bill status: Vetoed by Governor

Citation
2019 HB587
Official source

Bill details

Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.

House status
Veto Sustained
Senate status
Passed/Adopted with Amendment
Committee
Senate Health and Human Services
Hearing
03/19/2019 at 01:45 PM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Health and Human Services Transportation

Official links

HB 587 - FINAL VERSION

14Feb2019... 0132h

05/30/2019 2397s

2019 SESSION

19-0607

11/04

HOUSE BILL 587

AN ACT relative to organ donation on a driver's license.

SPONSORS: Rep. Torosian, Rock. 14; Rep. Wallace, Rock. 33; Rep. Janigian, Rock. 8; Rep. Abramson, Rock. 20; Rep. Aldrich, Belk. 2

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill clarifies that a person's decision to donate his or her own body, organ, or tissue upon death is not subject to amendment or revocation after such person's death.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

14Feb2019... 0132h

05/30/2019 2397s 19-0607

11/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

AN ACT relative to organ donation on a driver's license.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; Honoring an Individual's Decision to Donate. Amend RSA 291-A:23 to read as follows:

291-A:23 Honoring an Individual's Decision to Donate. A person's decision to make a donation of that person's own body, organ, or tissue after death pursuant to RSA 291-A:4, I shall be honored. [In the absence of a revocation or amendment,] Such a decision may only be revoked or amended as allowed in RSA 291-A:6, RSA 291-A:8, VII, or RSA 291-A:14, VI. Health care providers and procurement organizations shall act in accordance with the donor's decision and [may take appropriate actions] shall make reasonable efforts to effect the anatomical gift.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

VETOED July 19, 2019

Veto Sustained September 18, 2019