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 indicate their intention to donate through the Office of the Secretary of State.

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 secure 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.

D.__The Secretary of State shall invite each hospital in the State to nominate individual donors or families for a "Gift of Life" award.__The Secretary of State shall forward the names of 5 persons to the Governor each year for commendation through the "Gift of Life" award for their generosity and humanitarian spirit.

E.__Notwithstanding Title 22, section 1711-C and any other provision of law to the contrary, a health care provider licensed in this State to provide primary health care shall provide information to a federally designated organ procurement organization regarding a patient who has indicated a willingness to become an organ donor under this section, Title 18-A, Article 5, Part 8 or Title 22, chapter 710 if such information is provided in accordance with professional standards applicable to organ donation and if donor intent has not been overridden pursuant to Title 22, section 2911, subsection 2.

5.__Effect.__An expression of willingness to make an anatomical gift under this section has the same effect as a designation under Title 18-A, Article 5, Part 8 or Title 22, chapter 710.__Revocation or suspension of the right to drive under this chapter does not affect the expressed willingness of a person to make an anatomical gift under this section.