ORGAN DONOR DESIGNATION; TOWING H.B. 4469 & 4470 (H-2):
FLOOR ANALYSIS
House Bill 4469 (as reported without amendment)
House Bill 4470 (Substitute H-2 as reported by the Committee of the Whole)
Sponsor: Representative John Gleason (H.B. 4469)
Representative Philip LaJoy (H.B. 4470)
House Committee: Transportation
Senate Committee: Transportation
CONTENT
House Bill 4469 would amend the Public Health Code to provide that a driver's license or State ID with a heart insignia on the front would constitute a document of anatomical gift; and specify that an anatomical gift made according to a will or document of gift would be irrevocable regardless of the desires of the deceased's next of kin.
House Bill 4470 (H-2) would amend the Michigan Vehicle Code to do the following:
-- Require the custodian of a vehicle removed from private property at the direction of a person other than a police agency or the vehicle's registered owner to notify the police agency.
-- Require the police agency to determine if the vehicle has been reported stolen and enter the vehicle into the Law Enforcement Information Network.
-- Allow the vehicle's owner to obtain the vehicle's release by paying the accrued towing and storage fees.
-- Provide that the vehicle would be deemed abandoned if the owner did not claim it within seven days after it was taken into custody.
-- Repeal the section related to vehicle removal on October 1, 2005.
-- Require the Secretary of State (SOS), in conjunction with the application for a driver's license (instead of with the issuance of a license, beginning January 1, 2007) to give the applicant information explaining the right to make an anatomical gift and describing the Organ, Tissue, and Eye Donor Registry, and an opportunity to have his or her name placed on the Registry.
-- Require the SOS, beginning January 1, 2007, to maintain a record of an individual who indicated a willingness to have his or her name placed on the Registry.
-- Require the SOS to maintain the Registry in a manner that provided electronic access, including the transfer of data to the State's Federally designated organ procurement agency (Gift of Life Michigan).
-- Prohibit the SOS from charging a duplicate driver's license fee to add a heart insignia indicating that a person was an organ donor.
-- Include violations that occurred in another country in a provision preventing the issuance of a driver's license for previous moving violations.
The bills are tie-barred to each other and to House Bill 4082 and Senate Bill 301. House Bill 4082 would amend the Michigan Vehicle Code to require the driver's license of an organ donor to contain a heart insignia on the front, and require the SOS to ask each licensee if he or she agreed to participate in the Registry, beginning January 1, 2007. Senate Bill 301 proposes similar amendments to Public Act 222 of 1972, which provides for an official State personal ID card.
MCL 333.10104 (H.B. 4469) Legislative Analyst: Julie Koval
257.303 et al. (H.B. 4470)
FISCAL IMPACT
House Bill 4469 would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
House Bill 4470 (H-2) would result in programming costs, which would be absorbed through the Department of State's Business Application Modernization Project. Minimal costs would result from inquiry requirements regarding whether applicants or current driver's license holders wished to participate in the Registry.
Date Completed: 6-1-05 Fiscal Analyst: Bill Bowerman
Analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent. hb4469&4470/0506