Living Donor Protection Act of 2025
- Last Action
- 3/11/2026
Actions
- 2026-03-11Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 352.
- 2026-03-11Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Cassidy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- 2026-03-11Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Cassidy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
- 2026-02-26Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- 2025-05-01Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2025-05-01Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2025-05-01 (00)
Living Donor Protection Act of 2025
This bill prohibits life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term insurance carriers from denying or otherwise restricting coverage for living organ donors.
Specifically, carriers may not deny, cancel, vary premiums, or otherwise impose conditions on policies based on an individual's status as a living organ donor.
The bill also expressly specifies that recovery from organ-donation surgery constitutes a serious health condition that entitles eligible employees to job-protected medical leave.
In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services must update educational materials on living organ donation to include information about the benefits and risks of living organ donation and the impact of donation on insurance access, particularly with respect to the bill's changes.
Cosponsors (20)
- Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Ben Luján (D-NM)
- Shelley Capito (R-WV)
- Angus King (I-ME)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Timothy Kaine (D-VA)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Christopher Coons (D-DE)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- Richard Durbin (D-IL)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
Subjects
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Disability assistance
- Employee leave
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health information and medical records
- Life, casualty, property insurance
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
- Surgery and anesthesia
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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