Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 988
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/06/2015           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and
       Economic Development (Clemens) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 765.521, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended, present subsections (2) and (3) of that
    7  section are redesignated as subsections (3) and (4),
    8  respectively, and a new subsection (2) is added to that section,
    9  to read:
   10         765.521 Donations as part of driver license or
   11  identification card process.—
   12         (1) The agency and the department shall develop and
   13  implement a program encouraging and allowing persons to make
   14  anatomical gifts as a part of the process of issuing
   15  identification cards and issuing and renewing driver licenses.
   16  The department shall designate individuals employed in each
   17  department office or facility as points of contact and require
   18  them to ask each person transacting business with the department
   19  if he or she would like to become an organ donor. The donor
   20  registration card distributed by the department shall include
   21  the information required by the uniform donor card under s.
   22  765.514 and such additional information as determined necessary
   23  by the department. The department shall also develop and
   24  implement a program to identify donors which includes notations
   25  on identification cards, driver licenses, and driver records or
   26  such other methods as the department develops to clearly
   27  indicate the individual’s intent to make an anatomical gift. A
   28  notation on an individual’s driver license or identification
   29  card that the individual intends to make an anatomical gift
   30  satisfies all requirements for consent to organ or tissue
   31  donation. The agency shall provide the necessary supplies and
   32  forms from funds appropriated from general revenue or
   33  contributions from interested voluntary, nonprofit
   34  organizations. The department shall provide the necessary
   35  recordkeeping system from funds appropriated from general
   36  revenue. The department and the agency shall incur no liability
   37  in connection with the performance of any acts authorized
   38  herein.
   39         (2) The department shall maintain an integrated link on its
   40  website referring a visitor renewing a driver license or
   41  conducting other business on the website to the organ donation
   42  registry under s. 765.5155. The department shall establish a
   43  procedure requiring department staff to confirm electronically
   44  that the organ donor question required in subsection (1) has
   45  been asked of each person entering the office or facility to
   46  conduct business.
   47         Section 2. The amendment made by this act in s. 765.521(2),
   48  Florida Statutes, shall apply upon the development and
   49  implementation of the vehicle registration system modernization
   50  project by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
   51         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.
   52  
   53  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   54  And the title is amended as follows:
   55         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   56  and insert:
   57                        A bill to be entitled                      
   58         An act relating to anatomical gifts; amending s.
   59         765.521, F.S.; requiring the Department of Highway
   60         Safety and Motor Vehicles to designate points of
   61         contact at offices and facilities of the department;
   62         requiring points of contact to ask persons transacting
   63         business with the department if they would like to
   64         become an organ donor; requiring the department to
   65         maintain an integrated website link to the organ
   66         donation registry; requiring the department to
   67         establish a procedure requiring department staff to
   68         confirm electronically that the organ donor question
   69         has been asked; providing for the future applicability
   70         of an amendment upon the development and
   71         implementation of a project by the department;
   72         providing an effective date.