2022 House Bill 1129 - SD Legislature prohibit forms of discrimination in access to organ transplantation.

2022 South Dakota Legislature

House Bill 1129

ENROLLED

An Act

ENTITLED An Act to prohibit forms of discrimination in access to organ transplantation.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That chapter 34-26 be amended with a NEW SECTION:

No person may discriminate against an individual at any point in the organ transplant process, solely on the basis of an individual   s mental or physical disability, unless the disability has been determined to be medically significant to the provision of an anatomical gift.

A violation of this statute is an unfair or discriminatory practice under chapter 20-13.

An Act to prohibit forms of discrimination in access to organ transplantation.

I certify that the attached Act originated in the:

House as Bill No. 1129

Chief Clerk

Speaker of the House

Attest:

Chief Clerk

President of the Senate

Attest:

Secretary of the Senate

House Bill No. 1129

File No. ____

Chapter No. ______

Received at this Executive Office

this _____ day of _____________,

2022 at ____________M.

By

for the Governor

The attached Act is hereby

approved this ________ day of

______________, A.D., 2022

Governor

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,

ss.

Office of the Secretary of State

Filed ____________, 2022

at _________ o'clock __M.

Secretary of State

By

Asst. Secretary of State