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Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action (2006)
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. "Appendix C First-Person Consent Status and Organ Donor Registry Participation." Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2006.

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Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action

State	First- Person Consent^a	Registry^a	Approximate Number of Individuals Registered (as of December 2005)^b
Virginia	Yes	Yes; affiliated with the DMV; online registry officially launched in August 2003 (www.save7lives.org)
Washington	Yes	Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.livinglegacyregistry.org)	3,017,287
West Virginia	Yes
Wisconsin	Yes
Wyoming	Yes	Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.wyomingdonorregistry.org)
NOTE: DMV = Department of Motor Vehicles; OPO = organ procurement organization; I.D. = identification; BMV = Bureau of Motor Vehicles. ^aSOURCE: http://www.unos.org/inTheNews/factsheets.asp?fs=6. The information is current as of November 2005. Information on Kentucky legislation updated April 2006. ^bInstitute of Medicine staff contacted a number of states to inquire about the number of individuals currently registered in the state’s organ donor registry. Not all states were contacted. ^cAs of September 22, 2005, approximately one-third of registered drivers. ^dAs of January 2005.