(a) Promotion.--The Department of Transportation shall ensure access by residents of this Commonwealth to an Internet-based interface which promotes anatomical donation and enables residents 18 years of age or older who hold a Pennsylvania driver's license or identification card to register as an organ or tissue donor and have that designation immediately integrated into the current database maintained by the department. This section shall not permit consent to donation of hands, facial tissue or limbs or other vascularized composite allografts. The Internet-based interface shall clearly state that the Internet-based interface only permits consent to anatomical donation. The Internet-based interface shall also state where on the Department of Transportation's publicly accessible Internet website detailed information about organ donation, tissue donation, donation of eyes and donation of hands, facial tissue or limbs or other vascularized composite allografts may be found and shall provide a hyperlink to that information.
(b) Paper form.--
(1) Within one year of the effective date of this section, the Department of Transportation shall establish a system which allows an individual who has been issued a driver's license or identification card to add the individual's anatomical donor designation to the Donate Life PA Registry by submitting a form to the department. This section shall not permit consent to donation of hands, facial tissue or limbs or other vascularized composite allografts. The Internet-based interface shall clearly state that the interface only permits consent to anatomical donation. The interface shall also state where on the Department of Transportation's publicly accessible Internet website detailed information about organ donation, tissue donation, eye donation and donation of hands, facial tissue or limbs or other vascularized composite allografts may be found and shall provide a hyperlink to that information.
(2) Registration shall be provided at no cost to the registrant.
(c) Donate Life PA Registry.--That portion of the database maintained by the Department of Transportation for recording donor designations and Internet-based interface established in this section shall be known as the Donate Life PA Registry.
(d) Form and content.--The form and content of the Internet-based interface shall be determined and maintained by the Department of Transportation, after consulting with the designated organ procurement organizations. The Internet-based interface shall not permit consent to donation of hands, facial tissue or limbs or other vascularized composite allografts.
(e) Technology.--An information technology system adopted by the Department of Transportation after the effective date of this section shall continue to accommodate the inclusion of donor designation information into the database and the ongoing operation of the Donate Life PA Registry.
(Oct. 23, 2018, P.L.594, No.90)
2018 Amendment. Act 90 added section 8625. Section 11(3) of Act 90 provided that the addition of section 8625 shall take effect upon publication of the notice under section 8629.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Section 8610 - Scope of subchapter
Section 8611 - Persons who may execute anatomical gift
Section 8612 - Persons who may become donees; purposes for which anatomical gifts may be made
Section 8613 - Manner of executing anatomical gifts
Section 8614 - Delivery of document of gift
Section 8615 - Amendment or revocation of gift
Section 8616 - Rights and duties at death
Section 8617 - Requests for anatomical gifts
Section 8618 - Voluntary contribution system (Repealed)
Section 8619 - Use of driver's license or identification card to indicate organ or tissue donation
Section 8620 - Police and emergency personnel responsibilities
Section 8622 - The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund
Section 8623 - Confidentiality requirement
Section 8624 - Prohibited activities
Section 8625 - Promotion of organ and tissue donation; Donate Life PA Registry established
Section 8626 - Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose death is under investigation
Section 8626.1 - Notification by coroners and medical examiners to district attorneys
Section 8626.2 - Discretionary notification by coroner or medical examiner
Section 8627 - Collaboration among departments and organ procurement organizations
Section 8627.1 - Information relative to organ and tissue donation
Section 8629 - Department of Transportation
Section 8630 - Department of Corrections
Section 8631 - Study of organ procurement organizations
Section 8632 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
Section 8641 - ยง 8642 - (Repealed)
Section 8651 - Scope of subchapter
Section 8652 - Intent of General Assembly
Section 8654 - Requirement of explicit, specific and separate authorization
Section 8655 - Agents, next of kin and other surrogate decision makers
Section 8657.1 - Notification by coroners and medical examiners to district attorneys
Section 8658 - Gifts of vascularized composite allografts
Section 8659 - Rights and protections for certain individuals
Section 8660 - Law on autopsies applicable
Section 8662 - Donees and vascularized composite allografts
Section 8663 - Dissemination of information prohibited
Section 8664 - Prohibited conduct