Vermont § 5250t - Donor registry

§ 5250t. Donor registry

• (a) The Department of Health shall ensure that a registry is developed and maintained
  to identify people who have authorized a document of gift. (b) The Department of Motor Vehicles is authorized to enter into a data use agreement
  with an organ procurement organization for the purpose of transmitting information
  identifying persons who have authorized a document of gift at the time of issuance
  of a driver’s license or driver’s license renewal and incorporating such information
  into a donor registry maintained by the organ procurement organization. Such information
  shall constitute the Vermont Donor Registry. The Department of Motor Vehicles may
  secure grants from public and private sources, and receive and disburse funds that
  are assigned, donated, or bequeathed to the Department to cover the costs of receiving
  and transmitting the document of gift data. As funds become available, documents of
  gift may be accepted and data forwarded from persons 16 and 17 years of age and persons
  being issued nondriver identification cards. (c) The Vermont Donor Registry shall: (1) contain a database that includes donors who have authorized an anatomical gift and
  provide a mechanism for an anatomical gift to be removed from the database; (2) be accessible to other organ procurement organizations to allow them to obtain relevant
  information from the donor registry to determine, at or near the time of the death
  of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has authorized
  an anatomical gift; and (3) be accessible 24 hours per day, seven days per week for the purposes specified in
  subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection. (d) [Repealed.] (e) Personally identifiable information contained in a donor registry about a donor or
  prospective donor may not be used or disclosed by any organ procurement organization
  except with the express consent of the donor, prospective donor, or other person making
  the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near the time of
  the death of the donor or prospective donor, whether such donor or prospective donor
  has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift. (f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any person from creating or
  maintaining a donor registry that is not established under this section, provided
  that any such registry shall comply with the provisions of subsections (c) and (e)
  of this section. (Added 2009, No. 119 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2023, No. 6, § 165, eff. July 1, 2023.)