---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 273a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "273a"
heading: "National living donor mechanisms"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/273a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part H — Organ Transplants"
---

# §273a. National living donor mechanisms


The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may establish and maintain mechanisms to evaluate the long-term effects associated with living [organ](/usc/42/274i–4.md?p=1) donations by individuals who have served as living donors.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 371A, as added Pub. L. 108–216, § 7, Apr. 5, 2004, 118 Stat. 589.)