(a) The examiner of drivers shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 to allow an organ procurement organization twenty-four-hour telephone access to the driver’s license database information, solely for determining whether a driver has indicated a willingness to be an organ donor pursuant to section 286-109.5.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-20

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Anatomical gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purposes of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Donor: means an individual whose body or body part is the subject of an anatomical gift. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
  • Donor registry: means a database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Organ procurement organization: means a person designated by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services as an organ procurement organization. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
  • Procurement organization: means an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
  • Prospective donor: means an individual who is dead or near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a body part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
(b) The examiner of drivers shall cooperate with any donor registry that this State establishes, contracts for, or recognizes for transferring to the donor registry all relevant information regarding a donor’s making, amendment to, or revocation of an anatomical gift.
(c) A donor registry shall:

(1) Provide a database that allows a donor or other person authorized under section anatomical gift before donor’s death” class=”unlinked-ref” datatype=”S” sessionyear=”2019″ statecd=”HI”>327-4 to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift;
(2) Be accessible to a procurement organization to allow it to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; and
(3) Be accessible for purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) seven-days-a-week on a twenty-four-hour basis.
(d) Personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor, or the person that made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift.
(e) This section shall not prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the State. However, the registry shall comply with subsections (c) and (d).

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