Title 20, DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES

(a) Gifts by will.--A gift of all or part of the body under section 8611(a) (relating to persons who may execute anatomical gift) may be made by will. The gift becomes effective upon the death of the testator without waiting for probate. If the will is not probated or if it is de…

If the gift is made by the donor to a specified donee, the will, card or other document or an executed copy thereof may be delivered to the donee to expedite the appropriate procedures immediately after death. Delivery is not necessary to the validity of the gift. The will, card …

(a) Document delivered to donee.--If the will, card or other document or executed copy thereof has been delivered to a specified donee, the donor may amend or revoke the gift by any of the following: (1) The execution and delivery to the donee of a signed statement. (2) An oral s…

(a) Donees and relatives.--The donee may accept or reject the gift. If the donee accepts a gift of the entire body, he shall, subject to the terms of the gift, authorize embalming and the use of the body in funeral services if the surviving spouse or next of kin as determined in …

(a) Procedure.--A hospital located in this Commonwealth shall notify the applicable designated organ procurement organization or a third party designated by the organ procurement organization of an individual whose death is imminent or who has died in the hospital. Notification s…

1997 Repeal. Section 8618 was repealed May 7, 1997, P.L.85, No.7, effective immediately.

(a) General rule.--The Department of Transportation shall redesign the driver's license and identification card application system to process requests for information regarding consent of the individual to organ or tissue donation. The following question shall be asked on both th…

Police and emergency personnel responding to the scene of an accident or trauma shall take reasonable steps to insure that the driver's license or personal identification card, donor card or other document of gift and medical alert bracelet, if any, of the individual involved in …

(a) Driver's license.-- (1) Beginning as soon as practicable, but no later than 10 months after the effective date of this paragraph, the Department of Transportation shall provide an applicant for an original or renewal driver's license or identification card the opportunity to …

(a) Establishment.--All contributions received by the Department of Transportation under section 8621 (relating to The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund contributions) and the Department of Health under section 8617 (relating to requ…

(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no organ procurement organization, eye bank or tissue bank may divulge any individually identifiable information acquired in the course of performing the organization's or banks' responsibilities under this chapter except f…

(a) Affiliates.--(Deleted by amendment). (b) Unfair acts.--(Deleted by amendment). (c) Organ procurement organizations, eye banks and tissue banks.-- (1) An organ procurement organization, an eye bank or a tissue bank shall not do any of the following: (i) Disparage the services …

(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 …

(a) Applicability of section.--This section shall apply in all cases when the coroner or medical examiner must determine the cause of death and whether the death may have resulted from criminal acts or criminal neglect. (b) Full denial of recovery of organs.--If a coroner or medi…

(a) Applicability.--This section shall apply in all cases when the coroner or medical examiner: (1) must determine the cause of death and whether the death may have resulted from criminal acts or criminal neglect; and (2) is not the coroner or medical examiner of the county in wh…

(a) Notification.--Except as set forth in subsection (b), a coroner or medical examiner or designee may notify the applicable designated organ procurement organization of a person's death outside the hospital for the purpose of facilitating recovery of tissues for transplant. (b)…

(a) Mandatory.-- (1) For purposes of the ongoing development and implementation of the Donate Life PA Registry, the Department of Transportation shall collaborate with the designated organ procurement organizations in applying for Federal or private grants recommended by the orga…

(a) Model curriculum.--Within nine months of the effective date of this section, the Department of Education, in consultation with the designated organ procurement organizations, shall develop and post on the Department of Education's publicly accessible Internet website a model …

The State Board of Medicine, the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine and the State Board of Nursing shall promulgate regulations requiring physicians, osteopathic physicians and professional nurses to complete a two-hour course on organ and tissue donation and recovery designed t…

The following shall apply: (1) The Secretary of Transportation shall publish notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin of the completion of the Department of Transportation's: (i) Internet website established under section 8621(c)(2) (relating to the Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial O…

The Department of Corrections shall, in consultation with an organ procurement organization, provide information to or make information available about anatomical donation to inmates in State correctional institutions. The information may also include information about donation o…

(a) Study.--The Legislative Budget and Finance Committee shall conduct a study and performance evaluation of expenditures which utilize grants from the Department of Health under section 8622(b) (relating to The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awarenes…

This chapter modifies, limits and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (Public Law 106-229, 15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq.). This chapter shall not modify, limit or supersede section 101(c) of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce…

(a) General rule.--On a request from an authorized official of an eye bank for corneal tissue, a coroner or medical examiner may permit the removal of corneal tissue if all of the following apply: (1) The decedent from whom the tissue is to be removed died under circumstances req…

This subchapter applies exclusively to hands, facial tissue, limbs and other vascularized composite allografts donated by an individual whose death is imminent or who has died in the hospital.

It is the intent of the General Assembly to provide guidance to organ procurement organizations, hospitals, health care professionals and the public about the donation of hands, facial tissue, limbs and other vascularized composite allografts when donated by an individual whose d…

The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Minor." An individual under 18 years of age. "Surrogate decision maker." An individual under section 8611(b)(1), (2)…

The following apply: (1) An individual of sound mind who is 18 years of age or older may authorize recovery of hands, facial tissue, limbs and other vascularized composite allografts. The authorization may be in a will, living will, health care power of attorney, power of attorne…

The following apply: (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a surrogate decision maker, in order of priority stated when persons in prior classes are not available at the time of death, and in the absence of actual notice of contrary indications by the decedent as set forth in subparagrap…

The following applies to organ procurement organizations, health care professionals, donees under section 8662 (relating to donees and vascularized composite allografts) and other persons who request a gift of hands, facial tissue, limbs and other vascularized composite allograft…

(a) Applicability.--This section shall apply in all cases when the coroner or medical examiner must determine the cause of death and whether the death may have resulted from criminal acts or criminal neglect. (b) Denial of recovery of vascularized composite allograft.--If a coron…

(a) Applicability.--This section shall apply in all cases when the coroner or medical examiner: (1) must determine the cause of death and whether the death may have resulted from criminal acts or criminal neglect; and (2) the coroner or medical examiner is not the coroner or medi…

(a) Gift.--The following apply to vascularized composite allografts: (1) If the individual whose death is imminent or has died in the hospital has a document of gift which authorizes a gift of a vascularized composite allograft, the organ procurement organization representative o…

(a) General rule.--An individual who is in need of a vascularized composite allograft shall not be deemed ineligible to receive a vascularized composite allograft solely because of the individual's physical or mental disability, except to the extent that the physical or mental di…

(a) General rule.--Subject to the provisions of section 8657 (relating to gift of vascularized composite allograft from decedent whose death is under investigation), the provisions of this subchapter are subject to the laws of this Commonwealth prescribing powers and duties with …

An organ procurement organization may, upon request and payment of associated fees, obtain certified copies of death records of a donor from the Division of Vital Records of the Department of Health.

The following persons may become donees of gifts of vascularized composite allografts for any of the purposes stated: (1) Any hospital, surgeon or physician for medical or dental education, research, advancement of medical or dental science, therapy or transplantation. (2) Any ac…

(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no organ procurement organization, eye bank or tissue bank may divulge any individually identifiable information acquired in the course of performing the organization's or bank's responsibilities under this chapter except f…

(a) General rule.--An organ procurement organization, an eye bank or a tissue bank shall not do any of the following with respect to recovery and transplantation of vascularized composite allografts: (1) Disparage the services or business of another organ procurement organization…

(a) General rule.--Except as set forth in subsection (b), a funeral director or a funeral establishment shall not: (1) remove vascularized composite allografts from a corpse; (2) permit others to remove vascularized composite allografts from a corpse; or (3) use funeral establish…

A person who acts in good faith in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability arising from any action taken under this subchapter. The civil immunity provided by this section shall not extend to persons if damages result …