VETOES

AN ACT concerning

Anatomical Donations - Consent

Hospitals - Requests for Consent for Anatomical Donations

FOR the purpose of altering a certain provision of law that
requires a hospital administrator or a designee of the
hospital administrator to request that the representative of
certain patients consent to an anatomical donation; altering
the order of priority for requests for consent for an
anatomical donation; and generally relating to anatomical
donations.

FOR the purpose of adding a requirement that certain hospital
officials request certain next of kin of deceased adult
patients in addition to deceased minor patients who die in
the hospital to consent to the provision of anatomical
donations from the decedent; providing for protection from
civil and criminal liability for certain individuals under
certain circumstances; making stylistic changes; and
generally relating to requests to consent to the provision
of a anatomical donations from a decedent who dies in a
hospital in this State.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General
Section 19-310(b)(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1986 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) As part of a hospital's standard, nonemergency
admission procedures for a patient who needs inpatient or
outpatient care, the hospital administrator or a designated
representative of the administrator shall:                                           

(1) Ascertain whether the patient is currently an
organ or tissue donor; and

(2) Include the information under item (1) of a this
subsection on the admission form of the patient.

(b) (1) In accordance with §§ 5-202 and 5-203 of this
article, when [a minor patient] AN INDIVIDUAL dies in a hospital,

- 3690 -