The state Senate gave final passage Thursday to a measure designed to facilitate organ donations in Kentucky. Known as House Bill 84, it would require coroners or medical examiners to release identifying and other relevant information about a deceased person to Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates if the person’s wish to be an organ donor is known and the body is suitable for medical transplant or therapy.
In most cases, officials say an organ donor must die in a hospital setting while on life support for his or her organs to be viable for transplant. That is not the case, however, with the heart valves, skin, bone, corneas and the large saphenous vein. Those can all be harvested within 24 hours of death.
House Bill 84 passed by a 30-0 vote. The bill now goes to the governor for his signature.
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