Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Prohibits covered health care providers and transplant hospitals from denying, refusing, or otherwise discriminating against individuals for organ transplantation solely because of a disability. Requires reasonable modifications, auxiliary aids, supported decision-making, and consideration of support networks; preserves physician medical judgment after individualized evaluations.
Progressives emphasize civil-rights and access for disabled candidates
Narrow civil-rights focus, low fiscal impact, and clear exceptions lower resistance; historically such measures win House approval.
Prohibits covered health care providers and transplant hospitals from denying, refusing, or otherwise discriminating against individuals for organ transplantation solely because of a disability.
Requires reasonable modifications, auxiliary aids, supported decision-making, and consideration of support networks; preserves physician medical judgment after individualized evaluations.
Provides an HHS Office for Civil Rights complaint route, clarifies interaction with other disability laws, and does not preempt stronger state protections.
Substantive, narrow civil-rights bill with modest burdens increases plausibility, but medical-community concerns and Senate procedural barriers reduce likelihood.
How solid the drafting looks.
Progressives emphasize civil-rights and access for disabled candidates
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize civil-rights and access for disabled candidates
Likely strongly supportive as a civil-rights measure ensuring people with disabilities can access life‑saving transplants.
Views the bill as closing a gap where disabled people were sometimes summarily excluded from transplant consideration.
Generally favorable but cautious; appreciates nondiscrimination plus the individualized medical‑judgment exception.
Wants clarity on operational, cost, and legal standards to avoid unintended consequences or excessive litigation.
Skeptical; concerned about federal mandates interfering with medical decisionmaking, increasing costs, and exposing providers to litigation.
Might accept protections for disabled patients if medical authority is clearly preserved.
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Substantive, narrow civil-rights bill with modest burdens increases plausibility, but medical-community concerns and Senate procedural barriers reduce likelihood.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize civil-rights and access for disabled candidates
Substantive, narrow civil-rights bill with modest burdens increases plausibility, but medical-community concerns and Senate procedural barr…
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