P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 3620w-1
(a) The Board will be responsible for creating, developing, and maintaining an online organ, eye, and tissue donor registry, in which all anatomical gifts made in Puerto Rico shall be electronically recorded, allowing organ, eye, and tissue donors to register, as well as all organ, tissue, and eye donations submitted through the identification of the driver’s license issued by the Department of Transportation and Public Works, or other means.
(b) The Department of Transportation and Public Works, in collaboration with the Board, shall establish a vehicle to allow individuals to express their consent to be organ and tissue donors, as part of the process of issuing and renewing driver’s licenses. The Department of Transportation and Public Works shall coordinate with the person administering any donor registry established, contracted, or recognized by the Board, in order to transfer all relevant information collected by the Department related to anatomical gifts to the donor registry, in accordance with this chapter.
(c) The Donor Registry shall:
(1) Allow a donor or other person authorized under § 3620d of this title, to include a statement in the donor registry indicating that the donor has made or amended an anatomical gift.
(2) Allow donors to amend an anatomical gift. The Department of Transportation and Public Works shall update their records to reflect said amendment and the Department shall notify said amendment to the Donor Registry for the corresponding update.
(3) Be accessible to the Organ Recovery Organization to verify the existence of an entry for an anatomical gift in the registry at the donor’s time of death or near the donor’s or potential donor’s time of death.
(4) Be accessible, electronically or by phone, 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week, in order to fulfill the purposes of clauses (1) and (3) of this subsection.
(5) Be accessible through a security code, in order to protect the privacy and integrity of the information stored therein.
(d) Personally identifiable information of a donor stored in the registry may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor or potential donor or person who made the anatomical gift, for any purpose other than to determine, at the time of death or near the death of the donor or potential donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made an anatomical gift.
(e) This section does not prohibit anyone from creating or maintaining a donor registry that has not been established by a contract with the government. Any record of this nature shall comply with subsections (b) and (c).
(f) The Board shall have until January 1, 2016 to create and implement the electronic organ, eye, and tissue donor registry.
History —Dec. 25, 2002, No. 296, added as § 27 on Mar. 4, 2011, No. 26, § 1; May 15, 2012, No. 85, § 1.