§ 8625. Promotion of organ and tissue donation; Donate Life PA Registry established.

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(a)Promotion.-- The Department of Transportation shall ensure access by residents of this Commonwealth to an Internet-based interface which promotes anatomical donation and enables residents 18 years of age or older who hold a Pennsylvania driver's license or identification card to register as an organ or tissue donor and have that designation immediately integrated into the current database maintained by the department. This section shall not permit consent to donation of hands, facial tissue or limbs or other vascularized composite allografts. The Internet-based interface shall clearly state that the Internet-based interface only permits consent to anatomical donation. The Internet-based interface shall also state where on the Department of Transportation's publicly accessible Internet website detailed information about organ donation, tissue donation, donation of eyes and donation of hands, facial tissue or limbs or other vascularized composite allografts may be found and shall provide a hyperlink to that information.

(b)Paper form.--

(1)Within one year of the effective date of this section, the Department of Transportation shall establish a system which allows an individual who has been issued a driver's license or identification card to add the individual's anatomical donor designation to the Donate Life PA Registry by submitting a form to the department. This section shall not permit consent to donation of hands, facial tissue or limbs or other vascularized composite allografts. The Internet-based interface shall clearly state that the interface only permits consent to anatomical donation. The interface shall also state where on the Department of Transportation's publicly accessible Internet website detailed information about organ donation, tissue donation, eye donation and donation of hands, facial tissue or limbs or other vascularized composite allografts may be found and shall provide a hyperlink to that information.

(2)Registration shall be provided at no cost to the registrant.

(c)Donate Life PA Registry.-- That portion of the database maintained by the Department of Transportation for recording donor designations and Internet-based interface established in this section shall be known as the Donate Life PA Registry.

(d)Form and content.-- The form and content of the Internet-based interface shall be determined and maintained by the Department of Transportation, after consulting with the designated organ procurement organizations. The Internet-based interface shall not permit consent to donation of hands, facial tissue or limbs or other vascularized composite allografts.

(e)Technology.-- An information technology system adopted by the Department of Transportation after the effective date of this section shall continue to accommodate the inclusion of donor designation information into the database and the ongoing operation of the Donate Life PA Registry.

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(Oct. 23, 2018, P.L.594, No.90)

2018 Amendment. Act 90 added section 8625. Section 11(3) of Act 90 provided that the addition of section 8625 shall take effect upon publication of the notice under section 8629.

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