Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act
Passed first chamber: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Passed first chamber
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 29
- Latest action
- Jun 24, 2025
What it does
Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act This bill expressly prohibits health care providers and other entities involved in matching donated organs with recipients from denying or restricting an individual's access to organ transplants solely on the basis of the individual's disability, except in limited circumstances. Specifically, these entities may consider an individual's disability when making decisions about transplants only if a physician finds, based on an individualized evaluation, that the individual's physical or mental disability is medically significant to the provision of the transplant. A disability shall not be considered medically significant if the…
Official summary · Introduced in House · Feb 24, 2025
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Where it stands
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Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- Katherine Cammack
- Andrew Garbarino
- Angie Craig
- Ashley Hinson
- Brian Fitzpatrick
- Celeste Maloy
- Claudia Tenney
- Darrell Issa
- Debbie Dingell
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
- Diana Harshbarger
- Don Bacon
- Donald Davis
- Eleanor Norton
- Gerald E. Connolly
- John Rutherford
- Josh Gottheimer
- Josh Harder
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks
- Mary Miller
- Nanette Barragán
- Paul Tonko
- Pete Sessions
- Pete Stauber
- Robert Wittman
- Seth Magaziner
- Seth Moulton
- Stephanie Bice
- Steve Cohen
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.