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S. 1552119th CongressHealth
Living Donor Protection Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) · 50 active : 18 Republicans, 31 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 352.
Where it standsBefore the Senate1 senator scores as swing vote
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govLiving Donor Protection Act of
2025
This bill prohibits life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term insurance carriers from denying or otherwise restricting coverage for living organ donors.
Specifically, carriers may not deny, cancel, vary premiums, or otherwise impose conditions on policies based on an individual's status as a living organ donor.
The bill also expressly specifies that recovery from organ-donation surgery constitutes a serious health condition that entitles eligible employees to job-protected medical leave.
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In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services must update educational materials on living organ donation to include information about the benefits and risks of living organ donation and the impact of donation on insurance access, particularly with respect to the bill's changes.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Disability assistance
- Employee leave
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health information and medical records
- Life, casualty, property insurance
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
- Surgery and anesthesia
How the Senate breaks down
- 1Swing 70–100
- 31Middle 30–70
- 68Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
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- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Richard J. Durbin (D-IL)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
- Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Shelley Moore Capito
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
