PUBLIC LAW 105-196—JULY 16, 1998 112 STAT. 631 Public Law 105-196 105th Congress An Act To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the bone marrow July 16, 1998 donor program, and for other purposes. |jj jj 22021 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, National Bone Marrow Registry SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. Reauthorization or.,. » , . , , „»T. ,^ m, T^. Act of 1998. This Act may be cited as the National Bone Marrow Registry 42 USC 201 note. Reauthorization Act of 1998". SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF REGISTRY.— Section 379(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274k(a)) is amended— (1) by striking "(referred to in this part as the 'Registry') that meets" and inserting "(referred to in this part as the 'Registry') that has the purpose of increasing the number of transplants for recipients suitably matched to biologically unrelated donors of bone marrow, and that meets"; (2) by striking "under the direction of a board of directors that shall include representatives of" and all that follows and inserting the following: "under the direction of a board of directors meeting the following requirements: "(1) Each member of the board shall serve for a term of 2 years, and each such member may serve as many as 3 consecutive 2-year terms, except that such limitations shall not apply to the Chair of the board (or the Chair-elect) or to the member of the board who most recently served as the Chair. "(2) A member of the board may continue to serve after the expiration of the term of such member until a successor
is appointed. "(3) In order to ensure the continuity of the board, the board shall be appointed so that each year the terms of approximately one-third of the members of the board expire. "(4) The membership of the board shall include representatives of marrow donor centers and marrow transplant centers; recipients of a bone marrow transplant; persons who require or have required such a transplant; family members of such a recipient or family members of a patient who has requested the assistance of the Registry in searching for an unrelated donor of bone marrow; persons with expertise in the social sciences; and members of the general public; and in addition nonvoting representatives from the Naval Medical Research and Development Command and from the Division of Organ
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