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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C First-Person Consent Status and Organ Donor Registry Participation." Institute of Medicine. 2006. Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11643.
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C
First-Person Consent Status and Organ Donor Registry Participation

Table C-1 provides information on each state’s first-person (donor) consent laws and the status of its organ donor registry. In addition, Institute of Medicine staff contacted the appropriate officials in some states and asked them to provide the number of individuals in their donor registries.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C First-Person Consent Status and Organ Donor Registry Participation." Institute of Medicine. 2006. Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11643.
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TABLE C-1 First-Person (Donor) Consent Status and Organ Donor Registry Participation

State

First- Person Consenta

Registrya

Approximate Number of Individuals Registered (as of December 2005)b

Alabama

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV (registry.legacyalabama.org)

 

Alaska

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.alaskadonorregistry.org)

~216,000

Arizona

Yes

Yes; not affiliated with the DMV (www.azdonorregistry.org)

42,913

Arkansas

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV

~800,000

California

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.donatelifecalifornia.org or www.donevidacalifornia.org)

 

Colorado

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV and accessed through Statline (coloradodonorregistry.org)

 

Connecticut

Yes

Yes

868,215c

Delaware

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV

 

District of Columbia

Yes

 

 

Florida

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV

 

Georgia

No

Yes; affiliated with the DMV

 

Hawaii

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV

 

Idaho

Yes

Legislation recently created a registry, but the bill needs to be revisited

 

Illinois

Yes

Yes (www.cyberdriveillinois.com)

 

Indiana

Yes

Yes; through the Indiana Donation Alliance Foundation (www.indianadonationalliancefoundation.org)

 

Iowa

Yes

Work in progress with DMV (www.iowadonorregistry.org)

42,339

Kansas

Yes

Yes; affiliated with DMV and housed within the OPO (www.mwtn.org)

233,037

Kentucky

Yes

April 2006, law passed to create a registry

 

Louisiana

Yes

Yes; housed within the OPO

 

Maine

Yes

Law passed to create a registry; development is under way

 

Maryland

Yes

No

 

Massachusetts

No

Law passed to create a registry; development is under way

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C First-Person Consent Status and Organ Donor Registry Participation." Institute of Medicine. 2006. Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11643.
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State

First- Person Consenta

Registrya

Approximate Number of Individuals Registered (as of December 2005)b

Michigan

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV

861,854

Minnesota

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV

1,732,434

Mississippi

No

No

 

Missouri

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.Missouriorgandonor.com)

2,014,191

Montana

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.livinglegacyregistry.org)

286,950

Nebraska

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.nedonation.org)

 

Nevada

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV

~731,000

New Hampshire

No

No

 

New Jersey

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.sharenj.org)

~45,000

New Mexico

Yes

Yes; via driver’s license or valid I.D.

766,262d

New York

No

Yes; affiliated with the DMV and administered by the New York Department of Health (www.health.state.ny.us)

 

North Carolina

Yes

 

~3,000,000

North Dakota

Yes

Yes; affiliated with DMV

 

Ohio

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the BMV (www.ohiobmv.com)

3,870,930

Oklahoma

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV; online registry officially launched in April 2004 (www.lifeshareregistry.org)

 

Oregon

Yes

No

 

Pennsylvania

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV

 

Rhode Island

Yes

Yes

 

South Carolina

Yes

No

 

South Dakota

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV

284,859

Tennessee

Yes

Yes; passed in 2001

 

Texas

No

Development is under way

 

Utah

Yes

Yes; affiliated with the DMV; online registry launched in April 2002 (www.yesutah.org)

 

Vermont

No

Law passed to create registry; development is under way

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C First-Person Consent Status and Organ Donor Registry Participation." Institute of Medicine. 2006. Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11643.
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State

First- Person Consenta

Registrya

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.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C First-Person Consent Status and Organ Donor Registry Participation." Institute of Medicine. 2006. Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11643.
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Rates of organ donation lag far behind the increasing need. At the start of 2006, more than 90,000 people were waiting to receive a solid organ (kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, heart, or intestine). Organ Donation examines a wide range of proposals to increase organ donation, including policies that presume consent for donation as well as the use of financial incentives such as direct payments, coverage of funeral expenses, and charitable contributions. This book urges federal agencies, nonprofit groups, and others to boost opportunities for people to record their decisions to donate, strengthen efforts to educate the public about the benefits of organ donation, and continue to improve donation systems. Organ Donation also supports initiatives to increase donations from people whose deaths are the result of irreversible cardiac failure. This book emphasizes that all members of society have a stake in an adequate supply of organs for patients in need, because each individual is a potential recipient as well as a potential donor.

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