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C
First-Person Consent Status and Organ Donor Registry Participation
Table C-1 provides information on each state’s first-person (donor) consent laws and the status of its organ donor registry. In addition, Institute of Medicine staff contacted the appropriate officials in some states and asked them to provide the number of individuals in their donor registries.
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TABLE C-1 First-Person (Donor) Consent Status and Organ Donor Registry Participation
State
First- Person Consenta
Registrya
Approximate Number of Individuals Registered (as of December 2005)b
Alabama
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV (registry.legacyalabama.org)
Alaska
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.alaskadonorregistry.org)
~216,000
Arizona
Yes
Yes; not affiliated with the DMV (www.azdonorregistry.org)
42,913
Arkansas
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV
~800,000
California
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.donatelifecalifornia.org or www.donevidacalifornia.org)
Colorado
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV and accessed through Statline (coloradodonorregistry.org)
Connecticut
Yes
Yes
868,215c
Delaware
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV
District of Columbia
Yes
Florida
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV
Georgia
No
Yes; affiliated with the DMV
Hawaii
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV
Idaho
Yes
Legislation recently created a registry, but the bill needs to be revisited
Illinois
Yes
Yes (www.cyberdriveillinois.com)
Indiana
Yes
Yes; through the Indiana Donation Alliance Foundation (www.indianadonationalliancefoundation.org)
Iowa
Yes
Work in progress with DMV (www.iowadonorregistry.org)
42,339
Kansas
Yes
Yes; affiliated with DMV and housed within the OPO (www.mwtn.org)
233,037
Kentucky
Yes
April 2006, law passed to create a registry
Louisiana
Yes
Yes; housed within the OPO
Maine
Yes
Law passed to create a registry; development is under way
Maryland
Yes
No
Massachusetts
No
Law passed to create a registry; development is under way
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State
First- Person Consenta
Registrya
Approximate Number of Individuals Registered (as of December 2005)b
Michigan
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV
861,854
Minnesota
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV
1,732,434
Mississippi
No
No
Missouri
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.Missouriorgandonor.com)
2,014,191
Montana
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.livinglegacyregistry.org)
286,950
Nebraska
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.nedonation.org)
Nevada
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV
~731,000
New Hampshire
No
No
New Jersey
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.sharenj.org)
~45,000
New Mexico
Yes
Yes; via driver’s license or valid I.D.
766,262d
New York
No
Yes; affiliated with the DMV and administered by the New York Department of Health (www.health.state.ny.us)
North Carolina
Yes
~3,000,000
North Dakota
Yes
Yes; affiliated with DMV
Ohio
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the BMV (www.ohiobmv.com)
3,870,930
Oklahoma
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV; online registry officially launched in April 2004 (www.lifeshareregistry.org)
Oregon
Yes
No
Pennsylvania
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV
Rhode Island
Yes
Yes
South Carolina
Yes
No
South Dakota
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV
284,859
Tennessee
Yes
Yes; passed in 2001
Texas
No
Development is under way
Utah
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV; online registry launched in April 2002 (www.yesutah.org)
Vermont
No
Law passed to create registry; development is under way
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State
First- Person Consenta
Registrya
Approximate Number of Individuals Registered (as of December 2005)b
Virginia
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV; online registry officially launched in August 2003 (www.save7lives.org)
Washington
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.livinglegacyregistry.org)
3,017,287
West Virginia
Yes
Wisconsin
Yes
Wyoming
Yes
Yes; affiliated with the DMV (www.wyomingdonorregistry.org)
NOTE: DMV = Department of Motor Vehicles; OPO = organ procurement organization; I.D. = identification; BMV = Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
aSOURCE: http://www.unos.org/inTheNews/factsheets.asp?fs=6. The information is current as of November 2005. Information on Kentucky legislation updated April 2006.
bInstitute of Medicine staff contacted a number of states to inquire about the number of individuals currently registered in the state’s organ donor registry. Not all states were contacted.
cAs of September 22, 2005, approximately one-third of registered drivers.
dAs of January 2005.
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