Lawmakers are taking extra steps to ensure organ donor safety.
Under House Bill 510, organ donation must be stopped if any signs of life are detected, which is a standard medical procedure.
Lawmakers, however, want to implement safeguards after a Kentucky man was discovered alive on an operating table as organ preservationists entered to begin the procedure.
Bill sponsor Rep. Jason Nemes, R-Middletown, said the bill puts patients first.
“If anybody who’s involved in the team that is extracting the organ to be donated thinks that there might be signs of life, they just hit the pause button, and then we re-evaluate the person to make sure that everything is OK,” said Nemes.
The Kentucky case prompting this bill happened in 2021 at Baptist Health in Richmond. The organ donor was discovered to be alive on the operating table. The procedure was canceled and prompted an investigation by the Attorney General’s Office.
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