Daily bulletin [2021 : March 2]

3/2/2021 The Daily Bulletin: 2021-03-02 | Legislative Reporting Service ffi UNC jjjj» SCHOOL OF ( GOVERNMENT The Daily Bulletin: 2021-03-02 PUBLIC/HOUSE BILLS H 71 (2021-2022) LIVING DONOR PROTECTION ACT. Filed Feb 1 1 2021. AN ACT TO PROTECT LIVING DONORS FROM POTENTIAL INSURANCE DISCRIMINATION, TO PROVIDE AN INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR UNREIMBURSED MEDICAL EXPENSES RESULTING FROM CERTAIN ORGAN AND MARROW DONATIONS AND TO PROVIDE UP TO THIRTY DAYS' PAID LEA VE TO STA ТЕ EMPLOYEES AND OTHER STA TE-SUPPORTED PERSONNEL WHO SER VE AS LIVING ORGAN DONORS AND UP TO SEVEN DAYS' PAID LEAVE FOR BONE MARROW DONORS. House committee substitute amends the 1st edition as follows. Amends proposed GS 58-3-25(d), which prohibits an insurer from refusing to insure, limiting coverage to, or discriminating against an individual based solely and without any additional actuarial risks on the status of an individual as a living organ donor, including charging a different amount for the same coverage. Now defines living organ donor to mean a living individual who donates one or more of that individual's human organs, including bone marrow, to be medically transplanted into the body of another individual (was, to another individual to be transplanted using a medical procedure to the body of that other individual). Intro, by Shepard, Hurley, Morey. GS 58, GS 105, GS 126, GS 13 IE Business and Commerce, Insurance, Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Higher Education, Government, View summary State Agencies, UNC System, State Government, State Personnel, Tax, Health and Human Services, Health, Health Insurance H 95 (2021-2022) IMPROVE ANATOMICAL GIFT DONATION PROCESS. Filed Feb 16 2021 , AN ACT IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF ORGAN EYE. AND TISSUE DONATION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES BY REQUIRING DONORS WHO ORIGINALLY BECAME DONORS IN ANOTHER. JURISDICTION TO CONSENT TO THE IMPRINTING OF AN ANATOMICAL GIFT STATEMENT OR SYMBOL ON THE DONOR 'S NORTH CAROLINA DRIVERS LICENSE OR IDENTIFICA TION CARD AND BY CLARIFYING WHEN AN ANATOMICAL GIFT MADE BY AUTHORIZING THAT A STATEMENT OR SYMBOL BE IMPRINTED ON THE DONOR'S DRIVERS LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION CARD WILL BE CONSIDERED REVOKED. House committee substitute amends the 1st edition as follows. Adds to the proposed changes to GS 130A-41 2.7 to specify that an anatomical gift donor who originally became a donor in another jurisdiction by authorizing that a statement or symbol imprinted on the donor's drivers license or identification card indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift and who applies for a drivers license or identification card in this State (previously did not specify the method and application), is required to authorize that a statement or symbol be imprinted on the donor's drivers license or identification card issued in this State in order for the gift to be valid based on an NC drivers license or identification card indication. Intro, by Sasser, Potts, Carney, K. Baker. GS 130A View summary Government, State Agencies, Department of Transportation, Health and Human Services, Health, Public Health https://lrs.sog.unc.edU/lrs-subscr-view/dailybulletin/2021-03-02# 1/18