[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5504 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5504

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 12, 2024

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

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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(1), 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 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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