Updates:

The End Kidney Deaths Act and the Coalition to Modify NOTA: Click here to learn more and join our team that aims to pass the End Kidney Deaths Act in 2024.

Waitlist Zero Executive Director Elaine Perlman is a Co-Founder of the Coalition to Modify NOTA, a group that is aiming to pass the End Kidney Deaths Act. The bill is H.R. 9275 & has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Malliotakis (R-NY) & Representative Harder (D-CA).

The Honor Our Living Donors (HOLD) Act H.R. 6020 is sponsored by Representative Obernolte (R-CA) and Representative DelBene (D-WA). The bill passed unanimously through the Health Subcommittee and the Energy and Commerce Committee.

The Colorado State Support for Living Organ Donors Act passed in mid-2023. Waitlist Zero is aiming support other laws that protect kidney donors in the next Colorado State Congress.

The New York State Living Donor Support Act passed unanimously and fully funded in December of 2022. The New York State Health Department has yet to implement the bill. Waitlist Zero is working to try to speed up the bill’s enactment so that more lives can be saved.