Organ Donation Referral Improvement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9939.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WITTMAN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 153, October 4, 2024, Page H5854):
  Article 1 Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To direct the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation to conduct a study on electronic automated deceased donor referrals. The study and accompanying report shall include recomendations on how to remove barriers to implementing such referrals, identify costs of installing the system, savings in staff time, the impact on organ donation volumes, best practices, and organ donor referral criteria that can be standardized across technologies to promote its broader adoption.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record October 4, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9939, 118th Congress

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  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9939

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  December 16, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  7c6397254c576823b55bdb965cbd9e305074d23314aa3460213b5cfc7aa52c9f

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of December 16, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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