 National legislation on consent and tissue donation issues is expressed in the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (2006) passed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws which states that "an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education", and prohibits trafficking in donated human organs for profit.In early 2008, former US Republican Representative W. Todd Akin proposed an amendment to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 to "make it unlawful for a person to import plastinated human remains into the United States.