The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 5250t)
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§ 5250t. Donor registry
(a) The Department of Health shall ensure that a registry is developed and maintained
to identify people who have authorized a document of gift.
(b) The Department of Motor Vehicles is authorized to enter into a data use agreement
with an organ procurement organization for the purpose of transmitting information
identifying persons who have authorized a document of gift at the time of issuance
of a driver’s license or driver’s license renewal and incorporating such information
into a donor registry maintained by the organ procurement organization. Such information
shall constitute the Vermont Donor Registry. The Department of Motor Vehicles may
secure grants from public and private sources, and receive and disburse funds that
are assigned, donated, or bequeathed to the Department to cover the costs of receiving
and transmitting the document of gift data. As funds become available, documents of
gift may be accepted and data forwarded from persons 16 and 17 years of age and persons
being issued nondriver identification cards.
(c) The Vermont Donor Registry shall:
(1) contain a database that includes donors who have authorized an anatomical gift and
provide a mechanism for an anatomical gift to be removed from the database;
(2) be accessible to other organ procurement organizations to allow them to obtain relevant
information from the donor registry to determine, at or near the time of the death
of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has authorized
an anatomical gift; and
(3) be accessible 24 hours per day, seven days per week for the purposes specified in
subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection.
(d) [Repealed.]
(e) Personally identifiable information contained in a donor registry about a donor or
prospective donor may not be used or disclosed by any organ procurement organization
except with the express consent of the donor, prospective donor, or other person making
the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near the time of
the death of the donor or prospective donor, whether such donor or prospective donor
has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any person from creating or
maintaining a donor registry that is not established under this section, provided
that any such registry shall comply with the provisions of subsections (c) and (e)
of this section. (Added 2009, No. 119 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2023, No. 6, § 165, eff. July 1, 2023.)