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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Allow Certain End-of-life-care Decision-makers To Consent to Organ and Tissue Donation’
Further amend the bill by striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting in its place the following:
‘Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §2902, sub-§2,  as enacted by PL 1969, c. 193, is amended to read:
 
2. Others.   Any of the following persons, in order of priority stated, when persons in prior classes are not available at the time of death, and in the absence of actual notice of contrary indications by the decedent, or actual notice of opposition by a member of the same or a prior class, may give all or any part of the decedent’s body for any purposes specified in section 2903: 
 
A. The spouse;
 
A-1.  An agent designated by a durable health care power of attorney or an advance health-care directive under Title 18-A, Article 5, Part 8; 
 
A-2.  A registered domestic partner, as defined in Title 22, section 2710; 
 
B. An adult son or daughter;
 
C. Either parent;
 
D. An adult brother or sister;
 
E. A guardian of the person of the decedent at the time of his death; or
 
F. Any other person authorized or under obligation to dispose of the body.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment replaces the bill.
This amendment amends the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act to include in the prioritized list of decision-makers both agents appointed under a durable health-care power of attorney or an advance health-care directive and registered domestic partners.