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2005 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Ch. 382
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CHAPTER 382
(House Bill 565)
AN ACT concerning
Hospitals - Bone Marrow Donation
FOR the purpose of requiring a certain hospital to allow an individual to donate bone
marrow to any individual under certain circumstances; and generally relating to
hospitals and the donation of bone marrow.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 19-310
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2004 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Health - General
19-310.
(a) (1) In this [section] SUBSECTION, "designated requestor" means a
hospital employee who has completed a course offered by an organ, tissue, or eye
recovery agency on how to approach potential donor families and request organ or
tissue donation.
[(b)] (2) [(1)] (I) On or before the occurrence of each death in a hospital, the
hospital shall contact an appropriate organ, tissue, or eye recovery agency in order to
determine the patient's suitability for organ, tissue, or eye donation.
[(2)] (II) The contact and its disposition shall be noted in the patient's
medical record.
[(c)] (3) [(1)](I) The appropriate organ, tissue, or eye recovery agency, in
consultation with the patient's attending physician or the physician's designee, shall
determine the patient's suitability for organ, tissue, or eye donation.
[(2)] (II) If the organ, tissue, or eye recovery agency, in consultation with
the patient's attending physician or the physician's designee, determines that
donation is not appropriate based on established medical criteria, this determination
shall be noted by hospital personnel in the patient's medical record and no further
action is necessary.
[(3)] (III) If the organ, tissue, or eye recovery agency, in consultation with
the patient's attending physician or the physician's designee, determines that the
patient is a suitable candidate for organ, tissue, or eye donation, a representative of
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