Consensual Donation and Research Integrity Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to ensure the consensual donation and respectful disposition of human bodies and human body parts donated or transferred for education, research, or the advancement of medical, dental, or mortuary science and not for use in human transplantation, and for other purposes.
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What This Bill Does
This bill requires certain entities that acquire human bodies and sell for profit a whole human body or human body part to register with the Department of Health and Human Services.
Registered entities must comply with record-keeping, labeling, packaging, and disposition requirements.
The registration and related requirements do not apply to
- the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (a public-private partnership that links the professionals involved in the U.S. donation and transplantation system) or its members;
- the preparation, transportation, and final disposition of human bodies or body parts by funeral service professionals; and
- schools of medicine, dentistry, and mortuary science and other research and training entities that do not sell whole human bodies or body parts for profit.
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- Library of CongressIntroduced in House
- House floor actionsReferred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- Introduced
- Committee
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