S. 1552 · 119th Congress

Living Donor Protection Act of 2025

Introduced on May 1, 2025 by Tom Cotton (R-AR). 50 cosponsors, 31 of them from another party. Latest action (Mar 11, 2026): Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 352.

Stage
Reported by committee
Introduced
May 1, 2025
Cosponsors
50
31 from the other party
Policy area
Health
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

A bill to promote and protect from discrimination living organ donors.

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

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in Senate, May 1, 2025). Public domain.

Living 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.

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.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Tom CottonR-ARSponsor

Democrats · 31

Independents · 1

Republicans · 18

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. May 1, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. May 1, 2025 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
  3. Feb 26, 2026 · SenateCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
  4. Mar 11, 2026Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Cassidy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  5. Mar 11, 2026 · SenateCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Cassidy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  6. Mar 11, 2026 · SenatePlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 352.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

Analisa's mapping of committee jurisdiction to federal agencies; the bill may touch others, or none of these.

Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. American Kidney Fund6 reports
    $796K reported (all issues)
  2. NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION6 reports
    $380K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION, INCAI match · 100%
  3. AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LIFE INSURERS5 reports
    $7.8M reported (all issues)
  4. American Heart Association5 reports
    $2M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, INC.$333.7K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  5. United Network for Organ Sharing5 reports
    $380K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING$42.9M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY4 reports
    $80K reported (all issues)
  7. American Nephrology Nurses Association4 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)
  8. American Society of Nephrology4 reports
    $260K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY INCAI match · 100%
  9. Dialysis Clinic, Inc.4 reports
    $100K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: DIALYSIS CLINIC, INC.$17.4M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 95%
  10. Nonprofit Kidney Care Alliance4 reports
    $360K reported (all issues)
  11. THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY4 reports
    $4M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO, THEAI match · 100%
  12. American Medical Association2 reports
    $13.1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION$371K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 99%
  13. Dialysis Patient Citizens2 reports
    $750K reported (all issues)
  14. PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY2 reports
    $900K reported (all issues)
  15. The Rogosin Institute2 reports
    $60K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: THE ROGOSIN INSTITUTE INC$297.5K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  16. Fresenius Medical Care North America1 report
    $1.2M reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.