Bill
HR 4637
Designates April as National Donate Life Month to raise awareness of organ, eye, and tissue donation and honor donors/recipients (symbolic recognition with no funding).
Status: Adopted
Introduced: Multiple introductions listed (2023-04-05; 2025-04-03; 2025-07-23)
Sponsor (primary): Rep. Julia Brownley
Classification: House resolution (ceremonial)
Note on sources/versions
- The available text includes two distinct ceremonial resolutions both identified as H.R. 4637: one designating April as National Donate Life Month (text dated 2023) and a separate 2025 resolution honoring the Curtis High School Water Polo Team for winning the 2024 state championship. Records show adoption actions on 2023-04-05 and 2025-04-03 and an additional introduction and committee referral on 2025-07-23. These are ceremonial, nonbinding resolutions rather than statute-changing legislation.
Purpose and intent
- Primary: To honor and publicly recognize April as National Donate Life Month in order to raise awareness about organ, eye, and tissue donation and to honor donors and transplant recipients.
- Secondary (in the included 2025 text): To honor the Curtis High School Water Polo Team for winning the 2024 Washington State High School Boys Water Polo Championship and to recognize the team’s coaches, families, and community supporters.
Key provisions and language
- National Donate Life Month resolution:
- Recognizes the lifesaving impact of organ, eye, and tissue donation.
- Highlights national statistics cited in the text: approximately 106,000 people on the transplant waiting list, about 22 deaths per day due to organ shortages, a new person added to the waiting list roughly every 10 minutes, and that one organ donor can save up to eight lives (plus additional healing via cornea/tissue donation).
- Honors donors and expresses support for efforts to educate and motivate individuals to register as donors during April.
- Expresses condolences to waiting families and gratitude to donor families and recipients.
- Curtis High School Water Polo Team resolution:
- Commends the team for winning the 2024 state championship.
- Recognizes coaches, families, and the community for their roles.
- Extends congratulations and best wishes for future success.
Who is affected
- These are honorary, symbolic recognitions. They do not create legal requirements or funding changes.
- Target audiences and beneficiaries of the Donate Life Month designation include organ, eye, and tissue donors and donor families; transplant candidates and recipients; health and organ donation organizations; and the general public (for awareness/registration efforts).
- The sports recognition affects Curtis High School, its athletes, coaches, families, and local community.
Procedural/timeline notes
- Classified as a House resolution (ceremonial) — passed/adopted according to the records shown (adoption dates listed in 2023 and 2025).
- One listed action (2025-07-23) shows referral to the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs; resolutions of this type commonly move quickly and do not carry budgetary implications.
Practical impact
- Symbolic and awareness-raising: encourages public recognition of donors and organ donation registration efforts, but imposes no regulatory, fiscal, or programmatic obligations on state agencies.
- Community recognition: provides formal commendation and visibility to the Curtis High School team and to donor advocacy activities during April.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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