Electing to be a donor of an anatomical gift when applying for a hunting, fishing, or trapping license and making an appropriation. (FE)

What it does

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill requires the Department of Natural Resources to provide a method by which a resident of this state who is 15 and one-half years of age or older, or an emancipated minor, who applies for a hunting, fishing, or trapping license may elect to include his or her name as a donor of an anatomical gift in the record of potential donors maintained by the Department of Transportation (donor registry) and to so indicate on a printed license, a conservation card, or a donor card. The bill requires DNR to transmit information about applicants who elect to be included in the donor registry to DOT, and requires DOT to record donor authorizations received from DNR in the donor registry even if the person does not have an operator's license or identification card issued by DOT. Under current law, DOT must maintain those records and disclose them to an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank under certain circumstances.

Under the bill, this method for electing to be a donor is similar to the method by which a person may, under current law, elect to be a donor in an application to DOT for an operator's license or identification card. However, under current law, a person applying for an operator's license or identification card who elects to be a donor must also indicate that election in the space provided on the license or card. Under this bill, electing to be a donor on an application to DNR for a hunting, fishing, or trapping license is sufficient to authorize a gift; the applicant may, but is not required to, indicate that election in the space that the bill requires to be provided on a license or conservation card. In addition, current law is more specific about how an anatomical gift may be described in the space provided on a driver's license or identification card than this bill is about an anatomical gift on a DNR license or conservation card. The bill also does not include provisions similar to those under current law that allow a person to refuse to be a donor of an anatomical gift by so indicating on the space provided on a driver's license or identification card and to revoke or amend an anatomical gift by crossing out the donor authorization. In addition, the bill does not require a space to be designated where an organ donor sticker may be affixed as current law requires on a driver's license or identification card.

Who's behind it

10 lawmakers are its authors⁠. 6 are Republicans and 4 are Democrats.

10 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a cost estimate. Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

• Fiscal Estimate From DHS
• Fiscal Estimate From DNR
• Fiscal Estimate From DOT

Versions and amendments

Every text the Legislature printed for this bill, including proposed changes. Each opens on the Legislature's site.

• Amendment Histories
• LC Amendment Memo