Statute 65-3239: Establishing a statewide donor registry;
requirements.
(a) Information obtained under
K.S.A. 8-247 and 8-1325,
and amendments thereto, from the division of vehicles by the Kansas federally
designated organ procurement organization shall be used for the purpose of
establishing a statewide organ and tissue donor registry accessible to in-state
recognized cadaveric organ and cadaveric tissue agencies for the recovery or
placement of organs and tissue and to procurement agencies in another state
when a Kansas resident is a donor of an anatomical gift and is not located in
Kansas at the time of death or immediately before the death of the donor. No
organ or tissue donation organization may obtain information from the organ and
tissue donor registry for the purposes of fund-raising. Organ and tissue donor
registry information shall not be further disseminated unless authorized in
this section or by federal law. Dissemination of organ and tissue donor
registry information may be made by the Kansas federally designated organ
procurement organization to a recognized in-state procurement agency for other
tissue recovery, or an out-of-state federally designated organ procurement
agency.
(b) The Kansas federally designated organ procurement organization may
acquire
donor information from sources other than the division of vehicles.
(c) All costs associated with the creation and maintenance of the organ and
tissue donor registry shall be paid by the Kansas federally designated organ
procurement organization. Such organization shall also pay the costs of
providing and maintaining the written information and educational materials
required to be distributed under subsection (g) of K.S.A. 8-247, and amendments
thereto, and under subsection (b) of K.S.A. 8-1325, and amendments thereto.
(d) An individual does not need to participate in the organ and tissue donor
registry to be a donor of organs or tissue. The registry is to facilitate organ
and tissue donations and not inhibit Kansans from being donors upon death.
(e) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the revised
uniform anatomical gift act.
History: L. 2002, ch. 60, § 1;
L. 2007, ch. 127, § 32; July 1.