Bill Text: CT SB00337 | 2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Requiring A Driver's License Applicant To Select Or Decline To Make An Anatomical Gift.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-28 - Public Hearing 03/05 [SB00337 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2014-SB00337-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 337
February Session, 2014		LCO No. 1887
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Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
(TRA)

AN ACT REQUIRING A DRIVER'S LICENSE APPLICANT TO SELECT OR DECLINE TO MAKE AN ANATOMICAL GIFT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 14-41 of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes is amended by adding subsection (g) as follows (Effective October 1, 2014):

(NEW) (g) A licensee or identity card holder seeking renewal of a license or identity card renewal shall be required to select whether or not to make an anatomical gift through inclusion in the state donor registry maintained pursuant to section 14-42a, provided such licensee or identity card holder has not already made such selection pursuant to section 14-42, as amended by this act. A renewed operator's license or identity card issued to a licensee or identity card holder who has authorized inclusion on such donor registry shall have a donor symbol imprinted on such license or identity card.

Sec. 2. Section 14-42 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2014):

(a) An application for an operator's license or identity card shall be made on forms furnished by the commissioner. The applications shall be in such form and contain such provisions and information as the commissioner may determine.

(b) The application for an operator's license and the application for an identity card shall [include the opportunity for] require the applicant to select whether or not to make an anatomical gift through inclusion in the state donor registry maintained pursuant to section 14-42a. An operator's license issued to a person who has authorized inclusion on such donor registry shall have a donor symbol imprinted on such license or identity card.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2014	14-41
Sec. 2	October 1, 2014	14-42

Statement of Purpose:

To require applicants for driver's licenses to complete the question regarding organ and tissue donation.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]