[3] It also seeks to limit the liability of health care providers who act on good faith representations that a deceased patient meant to make an anatomical gift.
[5][3] The first Uniform Anatomical Gift Act was created after the first successful heart transplant in 1967; the operation was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard.
[2][3] The UAGA was drafted in order to increase organ and blood supplies and donation and to protect patients in the United States.
[1][9] Another major statement that this revised version of the UAGA made was that a coroner's investigation or an autopsy could not be obstructed by an individual's wish for organ donation.
[10] The Act's revisions were enacted by 26 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
[1] In 2006, The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act was revised with three main goals: motivating more of the population to make anatomical gifts, making honoring an individual's wishes to donate a priority, and maintaining the current organ donation and transplantation system in the United States.
[6][3] This revised UAGA additionally created legislation allowing certain people to make an anatomical gift to another person while the donating individual is still alive.
[3] It is stated that it's the duty of law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, and other emergency personnel to search for the records of donor consent upon death.
[6][5] The UAGA revision of 2006 makes it a felony punishable by a fine or prison to falsify, deface, or destroy organ donor documentation of another.
[4] Christian Longo, a convicted murderer, has played a key role in rousing public debate regarding the rights of the incarcerated to become organ donors.
[11] The argument against the retrieval of post mortem gametes in this case was that the UAGA stated the purposes of donation were for transplantation, therapy, research, or education.