1. (A) LifePoint, Inc. within the territory designated pursuant to federal law, is the exclusive agency to receive potential organ donor referrals and organ donations and tissue referrals and tissue donations so long as this entity remains and is certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and abides by the regulations of the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network and the United Network for Organ Sharing or its successor.
2. (B) LifePoint, Inc. annually by April first shall submit a report to the General Assembly concerning its activities and the incidence of organ and tissue donation.

HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 29, Section 1; 1998 Act No. 289, Section 8; 2006 Act No. 334, Section 1, eff June 2, 2006; 2009 Act No. 4, Section 3, eff May 6, 2009.

Effect of Amendment

The 2006 amendment, in subsection (A), substituted "LifePoint, Inc." for "The South Carolina Organ Procurement Agency,", added "and tissue referrals and tissue donations" and substituted "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services" for "Health Care Financing Administration"; rewrote subsection (B), deleting references to the American Red Cross Southeastern Tissue Services and the South Carolina Organ Procurement Agency; deleted subsection (C) relating to the South Carolina Eye Bank; and deleted subsection (D) relating to donations through Section 44-43-340.

The 2009 amendment made no apparent changes.