(1) Establish a program for the certification of organizations, corporations, or other entities engaged in the procurement of organs, tissues, and eyes for transplantation.
(2) Adopt rules that set forth appropriate standards and guidelines for the program in accordance with ss. 765.541-765.546 and part II of chapter 408. These standards and guidelines must be substantially based on the existing laws of the Federal Government and this state and the existing standards and guidelines of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB), the South-Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation (SEOPF), the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO), and the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA). In addition, the agency shall, before adopting these standards and guidelines, seek input from all procurement organizations based in this state.
(3) Collect, keep, and make available to the Governor and the Legislature information regarding the numbers and disposition of organs, tissues, and eyes procured by each certified procurement organization.
(4) Monitor procurement organizations for program compliance.
(5) Provide for the administration of the Organ and Tissue Procurement and Transplantation Advisory Board.
History.—ss. 2, 9, ch. 91-271; s. 5, ch. 91-429; s. 5, ch. 94-305; s. 33, ch. 2003-1; s. 201, ch. 2007-230; s. 13, ch. 2009-218.
Note.—Former s. 381.6021.
Structure Florida Statutes
Chapter 765 - Health Care Advance Directives
Part V - Anatomical Gifts (Ss. 765.510-765.547)
765.510 - Legislative declaration.
765.512 - Persons who may make an anatomical gift.
765.513 - Donees; purposes for which anatomical gifts may be made.
765.514 - Manner of making anatomical gifts.
765.515 - Delivery of donor document.
765.5155 - Donor registry; education program.
765.51551 - Donor registry; public records exemption.
765.516 - Donor amendment or revocation of anatomical gift.
765.517 - Rights and duties at death.
765.5185 - Corneal removal by medical examiners.
765.519 - Enucleation of eyes by licensed funeral directors.
765.521 - Donations as part of driver license or identification card process.
765.523 - Discrimination in access to anatomical gifts and organ transplants prohibited.
765.541 - Certification of procurement organizations; agency responsibilities.
765.542 - Requirements to engage in organ, tissue, or eye procurement.
765.543 - Organ and Tissue Procurement and Transplantation Advisory Board; creation; duties.
765.544 - Fees; organ and tissue donor education and procurement.
765.545 - Physician supervision of cadaveric organ and tissue procurement coordinators.
765.546 - Procurement of cadaveric organs for transplant by out-of-state physicians.
765.547 - Cooperation between medical examiner and procurement organization.