How many drivers licenses are issued when one is under age 18 and don’t expire until they are in the early 20s? How can the question of organ donation be addressed both before and after age 18 when issued as a minor?
I’m not sure, and it’s not usually relevant. If someone is listed on their DL for donation, it’s been my experience that the OPO will still defer to family.
What you have in this case is something more. The patient, at sometime in the past, signed up in the database, an act that involves more than saying yes in the DMV line.
www.donatelifetexas.org
It’s been my experience that because checking yes on a DL is so casual, it wouldn’t stand up in court, so the OPOs defer to family, even with a yes to donation on the DL.
In this case, the patient went to the donate life website, and signed an informed consent to donate.