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Uniform Anatomical Gift Act passed.

Date: 1968

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This legislation aims to protect people donating their organs after death, as well as organ recipients. However, it does not specifically ban the sale of deceased-donor organs or regulate compensation for donated organs. As a result, this leaves the issue of incentives to case-by-case determinations at the state level.