Legislation· Jun 2025Sponsored by Kat Cammack (R)
Charlotte Woodward Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act
Bars health care providers from denying organ transplants solely because of disability.
Tradeoff
Prevents discrimination against people with disabilities seeking organ transplants. Allows doctors to consider disability only if it's medically significant after an individualized evaluation.
What's in it
Passed the House by on June 23, 2025 — now in the Senate.
House
Introduced
(Feb 24, 2025)
House
Committee on Energy and Commerce(Feb 24, 2025)
House
The Committee on Energy and Commerce voted to send it to the floor
Reported 46 - 1(Apr 29, 2025)
Committee report H. Rept. 119-159.
House
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Jun 23, 2025)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Received from the House
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions(Jun 24, 2025)
- Debbie Dingell (D-MI)
- Darrell Issa (R-CA)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
- Pete Sessions (R-TX)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
- Paul Tonko (D-NY)
- Pete Stauber (R-MN)
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY)
- Seth Moulton (D-MA)
- Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA)
- Mary E. Miller (R-IL)
- Donald G. Davis (D-NC)
- Celeste Maloy (R-UT)
- Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- John H. Rutherford (R-FL)
- Ashley Hinson (R-IA)
- Diana Harshbarger (R-TN)
- Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA)
- Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK)
- Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA)
- Josh Harder (D-CA)
- Angie Craig (D-MN)
- Seth Magaziner (D-RI)
- Don Bacon (R-NE)
- Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY)