SUMMARY OF HOUSE-PASSED BILL
IN COMMITTEE
House Bill 4762 (as passed by the House)
Sponsor: Representative Bronna Kahle
House Committee: Health Policy
Senate Committee: Health Policy and Human Services
CONTENT
The bill would amend the Public Health Code to prohibit a person that performed organ transplants in the State from denying or refusing to provide certain services related to an organ transplant based solely on an individual's disability.
Specifically, the bill would prohibit a person that performs organ transplants in the State from doing any of the following in providing services related to an organ transplant to an individual who had a disability based solely on the individual's disability:
-- Refusing to transplant an organ in the individual.
-- Denying the individual evaluation, referral, surgery, counseling, or postoperative treatment for an organ transplant.
-- Refusing to place the individual on an organ transplant waiting list or lower the individual's priority on that waiting list to receive an organ transplant.
"Organ" would mean that term as defined in Section 10102 of the Code: human kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, or intestine or multivisceral organs when transplanted at the same time as an intestine.
"Disability" would mean that term as defined in 42 USC 12102: with respect to an individual, a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a record of such an impairment, or being regarded as having such an impairment.
Proposed MCL 333.10251 Legislative Analyst: Stephen Jackson
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
Fiscal Analyst: Elizabeth Raczkowski
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.