Organ donation promotion-task force.

ORIGINAL
Senate
ENGROSSED
File No
.
SF0041

ENROLLED ACT NO. 28,

SENATE

SIXTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2018 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to organ donation; creating an organ, eye and tissue donation task force; specifying task force membership; assigning duties to the governor; specifying task force duties and staffing; requiring a report; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section
1
.

(a)

There is created the organ
, eye and tissue
donation task force to consider means of improving and promoting the organ donation
process and system in Wyoming.

(b)

The task force shall consist of
not
more
than
eight
(
8
) members, appointed by the governor
on or before May 1, 2018. Task force members
shall serve without compensation
except that a state or local government employee's service on the task force shall be considered part of the employee
'
s regular employment duties for which the employee's regular pay may be earned.
The
membership shall be as follows:

(i)

One (1) member shall be a department of transportation employee knowledgeable of the departm
ent’s activities related
to the
organ donation system;

(ii)

One (1) member shall be a department of health employee knowledgeable of the departm
ent’s activities
related
to the
organ donation system;

(iii)

One (1) member shall be a member of the public knowledgeable of the organ donation system;

(iv)

O
ne (1) member
shall be
a
representative of a

federally designated organ procurement organization
;

(v
)

O
ne (1) member shall be a distric
t attorney
, county attorney or county
prosecutor;

(vi
)

One (1) m
ember shall be a county coroner;

(vii)

One (1) member shall be
a rabbi, priest, minister, cleric or other religious counselor
;

(viii)

One (1) member shall be a representative of an eye bank serving the state of Wyoming.

(c)

The governor shall appoint the chairman of the task force.

(d)

The task force
shall
study and consider:

(i
)

Means of i
ncreasing the number of
Wyoming
resi
dents
who volunteer
to be
anatomical donors;

(ii)

Means of improving public outreach and organ donation education, including donation

related websites;

(iii)

Means of improving the system used to facilitate
organ donation at the time of a driver's
license application or renewal;

(iv)

The costs associated with any recommendations for improvements to the organ donation system;

(
v)

Other means of improving the organ donation system in Wyoming to increase the number of volunteer organ donors in Wyoming and the number of organs successfully donated in Wyom
ing.

(e)

The task force shall s
ubmi
t a report on or before October
1, 2018 to the
governor and the joint labor, health and social services i
nt
erim c
ommittee. The report shall
summarize the work of the task force and the task force's efforts to address the subjects listed in subsection (d) of this section. The report shall provide recommendations for improvement
s

to
Wyoming's organ donation system consistent with the goals established in subsection (d) of this section.
The report
may
include recommendation
s
for changes to Wyoming law that would enhance the or
gan donation system in Wyoming.

(f)

The governor shall determine which
executive branch
state agency shall provide administrative support to the task force.

(g)

The task force shall terminate
on
December 31, 2018.

Section 2
.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the
Senate
.

Chief Clerk

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