Organ Transplant Contributions Act of 1985

Summary

Organ Transplant Contributions Act of 1985 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate on their income tax returns a contribution of any portion of their income tax refund or any cash contribution voluntarily forwarded with their returns to support the National Organ Transplant Trust Fund. Establishes within the Treasury the National Organ Transplant Trust Fund. Appropriates to such trust fund an amount equal to the amount designated on tax returns for the fund. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations which will establish an organ transplantation program. Directs the Secretary to authorize payments from the trust fund on behalf of eligible individuals to pay costs of organ transplantation procedures, both preoperatively and postoperatively. Defines "eligible individual" as an individual who, as determined by the Secretary, has a life-threatening medical condition for which a transplant procedure is reasonably medically necessary and who has no source of payment for an organ transplantation procedure.

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Timeline

1. 21 January 1985

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 21 January 1985

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 25 January 1985

   Committee

   Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department, Health and Human Services Department.

   Source: Committee

4. 24 June 1985

   Committee

   Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 99-242.

   Source: Committee

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 21 January 1985

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. Bumpers, Dale [D-AR] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Proxmire, William [D-WI] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL] · D · Cosponsor
• · ssfi00 · Standing

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