Bill Text: CA ACR122 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Concurrent Resolution 122 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-21)

Status: (Passed) 2014-05-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 44, Statutes of 2014. [ACR122 Detail]

Download: California-2013-ACR122-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: ACR 122	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  44
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  MAY 30, 2014
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MAY 23, 2014
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beth Gaines
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano,
Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford,
Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway,
Cooley, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong,
Fox, Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray,
Grove, Hagman, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer,
Levine, Linder, Logue, Maienschein, Medina, Melendez, Mullin,
Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A.
P�rez, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Ridley-Thomas,
Rodriguez, Skinner, Stone, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk,
and Yamada)

                        MARCH 17, 2014

   Relative to Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 122, Beth Gaines. Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month.
   This measure would designate the month of May 2014 as Bone Marrow
Donation Awareness Month.




   WHEREAS, Since 1987, when Congress authorized the establishment of
a national registry of volunteer bone marrow donors, the National
Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), now publicly known as Be The Match, has
facilitated more than 61,000 marrow and umbilical cord blood
transplants; and
   WHEREAS, Be The Match states that the number of transplants
facilitated through the national Be The Match Registry is "only a
fraction of the people who can benefit"; and
   WHEREAS, One of the leading hurdles cited in a report by the
Government Accountability Office is locating a suitably matched,
unrelated donor, a process that is often difficult, time-consuming,
and costly; and
   WHEREAS, The most prevalent problem with respect to bone marrow
donation is the need for racially and ethnically diverse donors
because of complex tissue types. Of the more than 11 million
potential donors on the United States' Be The Match Registry, 41
percent are donors from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds;
and
   WHEREAS, There is a need to enhance the understanding of the
importance of bone marrow donation, and to encourage Californians to
participate in bone marrow donation drives; and
   WHEREAS, Be The Match operates the world's largest and most
diverse registry of potential bone marrow donors; and
   WHEREAS, There is a need to support programs that reduce search
time for patients and fully type donors whose tissue compatibility
types are less common; and
   WHEREAS, The bone marrow registration process is simple. It only
takes a few minutes and requires a cheek swab; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature designates May 2014 as Bone
Marrow Donation Awareness Month; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.