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B.__Information regarding the opportunity to save a life
through organ and tissue donation must be prominently
displayed on driver's license information mailed to
applicants or distributed at offices of the bureau and
must be prominently displayed on posters in offices of the
bureau.

 
Sec. 6. 29-A MRSA §1354, sub-§6, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 505,
§15 and affected by §22, is amended to read:

 
B. The Secretary of State shall develop and implement a
standardized driver education curriculum that establishes
minimum standards for instructional goals and learning
objectives. Beginning January 1, 2004, the standardized
driver education curriculum must include a 30-minute
segment on organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

 
Sec. 7. 29-A MRSA §1402-A, sub-§§4, 5 and 6 are enacted to read:

 
4.__Anatomical gift coordination.__In order to coordinate
the donation of anatomical gifts and the receipt and
transplantation of organs and tissues, the Secretary of State
shall perform the following duties.

 
A.__The Secretary of State shall modify its existing
database system to maintain the Maine Organ Donor
Registry, referred to in this section as "the registry."__
The Secretary of State shall include information on donors
who have previously indicated their intention to donate
through the office of the Secretary of State, those who
indicate their intent to donate under this section, an
advance health care directive pursuant to Title 18-A,
Article 5, Part 8, the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
pursuant to Title 22, chapter 710 or any other method that
clearly indicates the intent of an adult donor to make an
anatomical gift upon the occurrence of death.

 
B.__The Secretary of State shall establish a volunteer
advisory committee to provide advice and information
regarding anatomical gifts, public information programs
and donor recognition programs.

 
C.__Information maintained in the registry must be made
available through a publically accessible site on the
Internet, designed to guard donor and family privacy, to
federally designated organ procurement organizations as
necessary for the coordination of receipt of anatomical
gifts and coordination of transplantation of organs and
tissues.


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