Bill Text: CA ACR172 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Concurrent Resolution 172 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month.

Sponsorship: Broadly Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-06-01 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 57, Statutes of 2016. [ACR172 Detail]

Download: California-2015-ACR172-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: ACR 172	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  57
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 1, 2016
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MAY 26, 2016
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 9, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 9, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hadley
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Beth Gaines, Achadjian, Alejo, Travis
Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta,
Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Ch�vez, Chiu,
Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier,
Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gray, Grove, Harper, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer,
Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes,
McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell,
Olsen, Patterson, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas,
Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk,
Williams, and Wood)

                        APRIL 18, 2016

   Relative to Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 172, Hadley. Bone Marrow Donation Awareness Month.
   This measure would designate the month of May 2016 as Bone Marrow
Donation Awareness Month.



   WHEREAS, Since 1987, when the United States 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 74,000 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, Seventy percent of patients do not have a donor in their
family and rely upon the national registry to find a match; and
   WHEREAS, California ranks number one in the nation for patients
searching for a match; 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, The most prevalent problem with respect to bone marrow
donation is the need for racially and ethnically diverse donors
because of complex tissue types; and
   WHEREAS, Of the more than 13.5 million potential donors on the
United States' Be The Match Registry, 40 percent are donors from
racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds; and
   WHEREAS, There is a need to engage the public to increase
diversity in the registry, with the goal of finding a matching donor
for all patients to receive the transplant they need, when they need
it; and
   WHEREAS, Be The Match operates the world's largest and most
diverse registry of potential bone marrow donors; 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 the month of May
2016 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.