An Act To Encourage Living Kidney Donation in Maine

Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §264  is enacted to read:

§ 264.  Living kidney donor grant program

The department shall establish a grant program to encourage living kidney donation by removing financial barriers for living kidney donors. The program must make grants available to living kidney donors to cover lost wages and unreimbursed travel, lodging and medical expenses of the donor associated with the kidney donation. A living kidney donor may be awarded a grant under this section of not more than $5,000. For purposes of this section, "living kidney donor" means an individual who is not deceased from whom a kidney is removed for transplant to another individual.

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This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program to encourage living kidney donation.