SB 180 Pennsylvania Senate · 2017-2018 Regular Session

An Act amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in ownership of property and legal title and equitable estate, further providing for right to dispose of a decedent's remains; in health care, further providing for example; and, in anatomical gifts, further providing for definitions, providing for scope, further providing for persons who may execute anatomical gift, for persons who may become donees and purposes for which anatomical gifts may be made, for manner of executing anatomical gifts, for rights and duties at death, for requests for anatomical gifts, for use of driver's license or identification card to indicate organ or tissue donation, for The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund contributions, for The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund, for confidentiality requirement and for prohibited activities, providing for promotion of organ and tissue donation, establishing the Donate Life PA Registry, providing for facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose death is under investigation, for notification by coroners and medical examiners to district attorneys, for discretionary notification by coroner or medical examiner, for collaboration among departments and organ procurement organizations, for information relative to organ and tissue donation, for requirements for physician and nurse training relative to organ and tissue donation and recovery, for Department of Transportation, for Department of Corrections, for study of organ procurement organizations and for relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, repealing provisions relating to corneal transplants and providing for vascularized composite allografts.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2017
Committee Review
Oct 2018
Senate Passage
Jun 2017
House Passage
Oct 2018
Signed into Law
Oct 2018
Introduced Jun 7, 2017 Signed Oct 23, 2018
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
27
Key actions
11
Committee
12
Amendments
1
Oct 23, 2018
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor
lower
Oct 10, 2018
Lower · Passed
House concurred in Senate amendments to House amendments
lower
Oct 9, 2018
Lower · Passed
Re-reported on concurrence, as committed
lower
Oct 9, 2018
Committee
Referred to RULES
lower
Oct 2, 2018
Upper · Passed
Senate concurred in House amendments, as amended by the Senate
upper
Oct 1, 2018
Upper · Passed
PN 2048 Re-reported on concurrence, as amended
upper
May 21, 2018
Committee
Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS
upper
Apr 30, 2018
Lower · Passed
Third consideration and final passage
lower
Apr 18, 2018
Lower · Passed
Re-reported as committed
lower
Apr 17, 2018
Committee
Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS
lower
Mar 13, 2018
Lower · Passed
PN 1530 Reported as amended
lower
Jun 22, 2017
Committee
Referred to JUDICIARY
lower
Jun 20, 2017
Upper · Passed
Third consideration and final passage
upper
Jun 19, 2017
Upper · Passed
Re-reported as committed
upper
Jun 14, 2017
Committee
Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS
upper
Jun 13, 2017
Upper · Passed
Reported as committed
upper
Jun 7, 2017
Committee
PN 0923 Referred to JUDICIARY
upper
1 primary · 8 co-sponsors

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