Senate Bill 405

Chairman: Sharon Cooper

Committee:Health & Human Services

House Sponsor: Steve Tumlin

Senate Sponsor: Don Balfour

Chairman Cooper’s Opinion of the Legislation:

This bill would streamline the organ gifting process in Georgia by replacing the "Georgia Anatomical Gift Act" with the "Georgia Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act".  The measure seeks to bring Georgia statutes in harmony with other states, as transplantation organizations are attempting to create harmonized anatomical gift regulations across all the states.  The bill would create uniform standards for the registry, assent, collection, and usage of anatomical gifts, in order to increase the number of collected anatomical gifts, and to make it more difficult for anatomical gifting decisions to be reversed after the donor has deceased.

This bill comes to the House Floor under the Open Rule.