H.R. 2589 — Consensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 2025

This section establishes registration, inspection, recordkeeping, labeling, and packaging requirements under a new section 373A of the Public Health Service Act for persons who acquire human bodies or body parts and sell them for profit in or affecting interstate commerce for education, research, or the advancement of medical, dental, or mortuary science (not for human transplantation). It exempts the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and its members, funeral service professionals handling preparation/transportation/final disposition, and schools of medicine, dentistry, mortuary science, and other entities that do not sell for profit; requires registrants to submit detailed applications (including business details, premises descriptions, compliance assurances), renew registration at HHS Secretary-determined intervals, notify changes within 30 days, pay fees based on implementation/enforcement costs (subject to appropriations), undergo regular inspections, maintain per-case records documenting donor consent, medical history, chain of custody, and disposition, and ensure proper labeling/packaging with chain of custody. (Thus, the requirements aim to track non-transplant body brokers amid concerns over consent, misuse, and interstate commerce in donated remains.)