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Proclamation 10719

National Donate Life Month, 2024

This proclamation declares April 2024 as National Donate Life Month and April 21-27 as National Pediatric Transplant Week, honoring organ donors and encouraging Americans to register as donors. The text also highlights the Biden Administration's policy efforts to reform the organ transplant system, including breaking up the monopoly on the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, capping Medicare drug costs for seniors, and funding ARPA-H research into 3D tissue printing.

Federal Register Open PDF 89 FR 22889

Key directives

  • Proclaim April 2024 as National Donate Life Month
  • Call on Americans to become organ, eye, tissue, or bone marrow donors
  • Call on the Nation to observe National Pediatric Transplant Week from April 21 through April 27

Timeline

Immediate

  • Proclamation of April 2024 as National Donate Life Month
  • Designation of April 21-27 as National Pediatric Transplant Week

Near term (90d)

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Long term

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Risks & tensions

  • Text references prior legislative and administrative actions (Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act, ARPA-H funding, Inflation Reduction Act) but these are descriptive of past achievements, not new directives in this proclamation
  • No binding policy mandates or agency directives are contained in the proclamatory language itself
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