§22-19-120. Legislative intent.

(a) The acquisition and transportation and transplantation of donor organs, bones and tissues is becoming more common place as new scientific and technological developments find better ways to conquer the human body's rejection of such transplanted organs, bones and tissues. In its concern that donee recipients be provided the best possible quality assurance that such donated organs, bones and tissues, retrieved in Alabama are free from any contagious or communicable disease or defect, the Legislature intends to establish in this article a framework for the development of appropriate standards of care and quality assurance for the acquisition and/or transportation of organs, bones and tissues retrieved in Alabama.

(b) It is also the intent of this article to recognize and utilize the quality assurance already developed in Alabama by the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center by authorizing the Chairman of the Department of Surgery to establish and promulgate the standards of proficiency and fitness and measures and procedures necessary to assure that persons involved in organ acquisition and/or transportation of organs retrieved in Alabama possess and provide the necessary knowledge and technical skills to acquire and/or transport organs, bones and tissues within acceptable levels of quality assurance.

(c) It is also the intent of this article to provide sanctions against persons who fail to adhere to and follow such established policies and procedures and standards for quality assurance in the acquisition and/or transportation in Alabama of donor organs, bones, and tissues retrieved in Alabama.

(Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §1.)