Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2353 – Persons who may receive anatomical gifts; purpose of anatomical gifts
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2353
- 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.
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Decedent: means a deceased person whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Document of gift: means a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Donor: The person who makes a gift.
- Donor: means a person whose body or part is the subject of an anatomical gift. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Eye bank: means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of human eyes or portions of human eyes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the death of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Hospital: means a facility licensed as a hospital under the laws of any state or a facility operated as a hospital by the United States, a state, or a subdivision of a state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Know: means to have actual knowledge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Organ procurement organization: means a person designated by the secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services as an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Part: means an organ, an eye, or tissue of a human being. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- 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 Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Recipient: means a person into whose body a part of a decedent has been or is intended to be transplanted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Refusal: means a record created pursuant to the provisions of Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- 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 Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Tissue: means a portion of the human body other than an organ or an eye. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
- Tissue bank: means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of tissue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
A. An anatomical gift may be made to any of the following:
(1) Any hospital, accredited medical school, dental school, college, university, organ procurement organization, or other appropriate person, for research or education.
(2) Subject to the provisions of Subsection B of this Section, a person designated by a donor.
(3) An eye or tissue bank.
B. If an anatomical gift to a person in accordance with this Section cannot be transplanted into the recipient, the part passes in accordance with the provisions of Subsection G of this Section in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor.
C. If an anatomical gift of one or more specific parts or of all parts is made in a document of gift that does not name a person in accordance with Subsection A of this Section but identifies the purpose for which an anatomical gift may be used, the following shall apply:
(1) If the part is an eye and the gift is for the purpose of transplantation or therapy, the gift passes to the appropriate eye bank.
(2) If the part is tissue and the gift is for the purpose of transplantation or therapy, the gift passes to the appropriate tissue bank.
(3) If the part is an organ and the gift is for the purpose of transplantation or therapy, the gift passes to the appropriate organ procurement organization as custodian of the organ.
(4) If the part is an organ, eye, or tissue and the gift is for the purpose of research or education, the gift passes to the appropriate procurement organization.
D. For the purposes of Subsection C of this Section, if there is more than one purpose of an anatomical gift set forth in the document of gift but the purposes are not set forth in any priority, the gift shall be used for transplantation or therapy. If the gift cannot be used for transplantation or therapy, the gift may be used for research or education.
E. If an anatomical gift of one or more specific parts is made but does not name a person in accordance with Subsection A of this Section and does not identify the purpose of the gift, the gift may be used only for transplantation or therapy, and the gift passes in accordance with the provisions of Subsection G of this Section.
F. If a document of gift specifies a general intent to make an anatomical gift by words such as “donor”, “organ donor”, or “body donor”, or by a symbol or statement of similar import, the gift may be used only for transplantation or therapy, and the gift passes in accordance with the provisions of Subsection G of this Section.
G. For purposes of Subsections B, E, and F of this Section the following shall apply:
(1) If the part is an eye, the gift passes to the appropriate eye bank.
(2) If the part is tissue, the gift passes to the appropriate tissue bank.
(3) If the part is an organ, the gift passes to the appropriate organ procurement organization as custodian of the organ.
H. An anatomical gift of an organ for transplantation or therapy, other than an anatomical gift made in accordance with Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section, passes to the organ procurement organization as custodian of the organ.
I. If an anatomical gift does not pass pursuant to the provisions of Subsections A through H of this Section, or the body or part of the decedent is not used for transplantation, therapy, research, or education, custody of the body or part passes to the person obligated to properly dispose of the body or part.
J. A person may not accept an anatomical gift if he knows the gift was not effectively made pursuant to the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 17:2354 or 2356 or if the person knows that the decedent made a refusal in accordance with the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 17:2354.1 that has not been revoked. For purposes of this Subsection, if a person knows that an anatomical gift was made on a document of gift, the person is presumed to know of any amendment, revocation, or refusal made to the same document of gift.
K. The Louisiana-designated organ procurement organization may transfer a vascular organ to an out-of-state organ procurement organization or suitable out-of-state recipient for transplantation only if a suitable recipient in the state of Louisiana cannot be found in a reasonable amount of time.
L. Except as otherwise provided in Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section, nothing in this Part affects the allocation of organs for transplantation or therapy.
M. Potential anatomical gift recipients shall be entitled to the protections against discrimination based on disability provided in La. Rev. Stat. 40:1170.1 et seq.
Acts 1968, No. 651, §1; Acts 1997, No. 99, §1, eff. June 11, 1997; Acts 2010, No. 937, §2, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2019, No. 57, §1, eff. May 30, 2019.
NOTE: See Acts 2019, No. 57, §4, that provides this Act shall be known and may be cited as “Evie’s Law”.