HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                       2917

(2) IF NOTIFICATION WAS MADE TO THE FIRE FIGHTER OR,
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN, OR RESCUE SQUADMAN AS REQUIRED BY
§ 18-213 OF THE HEALTH - GENERAL ARTICLE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved May 27, 1986.

CHAPTER 764

(House Bill 1027)

AN ACT concerning

Hospitals - Requests for Consent for Anatomical Donations

FOR the purpose of requiring certain designated persons at
hospitals in this State to ascertain whether patients at the
hospital have consented to certain anatomical donations of
organs or tissues; providing for the inclusion of this
information on certain forms; requiring certain designated
persons at a hospital in this State to request certain next
of kin of an individual a minor patient who dies in the
hospital to consent to certain anatomical donations from the
decedent; providing certain exemptions; providing for
certain discretion and sensitivity in asking for donations
under this Act; providing for the documentation of a request
and its disposition under this Act; requiring the Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt certain regulations to
carry out this Act; providing for compliance with the
provisions of this Act; and generally relating to requests
to consent to the provision of anatomical donations from a
decedent who dies in a hospital.

BY adding to

Article - Health - General
Section 19-310

Annotated Code of Maryland                                                           

(1982 Volume and 1985 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.