Bill Text: CA ACR29 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Donate Life California Day: driver's license.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 48-27-1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-05-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 42, Statutes of 2015. [ACR29 Detail]

Download: California-2015-ACR29-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 29	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  42
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  MAY 26, 2015
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MAY 18, 2015
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Frazier
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Runner)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen,
Atkins, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonta, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos,
Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd,
Eggman, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia,
Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Grove, Hadley, Harper,
Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder,
Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez,
Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Perea,
Quirk, Rendon, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone,
Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, and Wood)
   (Coauthor: Senator Berryhill)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2015

   Relative to organ donation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 29, Frazier. Donate Life California Day: driver's license.
   This measure would designate April 20, 2015, as DMV/Donate Life
California Day in the State of California and the month of April
2015, as DMV/Donate Life California Month in the State of California,
and would encourage all Californians to sign up with the Donate Life
California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.



   WHEREAS, Organ, tissue, eye, and blood donation are compassionate
and life-giving acts looked upon and recognized in the highest
regard; and
   WHEREAS, More than 123,000 individuals nationwide and over 22,000
Californians are currently on the national organ transplant wait
list. While about one-third of these patients receive a transplant
each year, another one-third die while waiting due to a shortage of
donated organs; and
   WHEREAS, A single individual's donation of heart, lungs, liver,
kidneys, pancreas, and small intestine can save up to eight lives,
the donation of tissue can save and enhance the lives of up to 50
others, and a single blood donation can help three people in need;
and
   WHEREAS, Millions of lives each year are saved and enhanced by
donors of organs, tissue, eyes, and blood; and
   WHEREAS, The California Department of Motor Vehicles is
celebrating 100 years of service to the State of California and ten
years as the official partner of Donate Life California; and
   WHEREAS, A California resident can register with the Donate Life
California Registry when applying for or renewing his or her driver's
license or identification card at the Department of Motor Vehicles;
and
   WHEREAS, Nearly twelve million Californians have joined together
to save lives by signing up with the state-authorized Donate Life
California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry to ensure that their
wishes to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor are recognized and
honored; and
   WHEREAS, Minorities are more likely to need a life-saving
transplant due to higher incidences of hypertension, diabetes, and
hepatitis, conditions that can potentially lead to organ failure and
placement on the national organ transplant waiting list; and
   WHEREAS, Nationwide, minorities make up 58 percent of organ
transplant candidates and 64 percent of those awaiting kidney
transplants. In California, Latinos make up 39 percent of those
waiting for life-saving transplants, Asians and Pacific Islanders 20
percent, and African Americans another 12 percent; and
   WHEREAS, Minorities make up more than one-half of the population
of high school students in California, according to the State
Department of Education. These high school students will have the
opportunity to make a decision about saving lives and joining the
state-authorized Donate Life California Registry to ensure that their
wishes to be organ, eye, and tissue donors are recognized and
honored; and
   WHEREAS, Donate Life California has developed a comprehensive
Educator Resource Guide that includes many of the health education
content standards for California public schools. This Educator
Resource Guide includes lesson plans and educational DVDs about
organ, eye, and tissue donation, and the Donate Life California
Registry created specifically for the youth population; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That in recognition of April as National Donate
Life Month, the Legislature proclaims April 20, 2015, as DMV/Donate
Life California Day in the State of California, and April 2015 as
DMV/Donate Life California Month in the State of California. In doing
so, the Legislature encourages all Californians to check "YES" when
applying for or renewing a driver's license or identification card,
or by signing up at www.donatelifecalifornia.org or
www.donevidacalifornia.org; and be it further
   Resolved, that the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.