118th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 2191Consensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 2023

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure the consensual donation and respectful disposition of human bodies and human body parts donated or transferred for education, research, or the advancement of medical, dental, or mortuary science and not for use in human transplantation, and for other purposes.

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Introduced Jun 22, 2023
Last action Jun 22, 2023
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SummaryCRS Summary

This bill requires certain entities that acquire human bodies and sell for profit a whole human body or human body part to register with the Department of Health and Human Services. Registered entities must comply with record-keeping, labeling, packaging, and disposition requirements. The registration and related requirements do not apply to the Organ Transplantation Network (a public-private partnership that links the professionals involved in the U.S. donation and transplantation system) or its members; the preparation, transportation, and final disposition of human bodies or body parts by funeral service professionals; and schools of medicine, dentistry, and mortuary science and other...

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in Senate
Timeline · 2 actions
Jun 22, 2023
Introduced in Senate
Jun 22, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.