Bill Text: CA SR71 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relative to organ donation

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 14-2)

Status: (Passed) 2016-04-11 - Read. Adopted. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3462.) [SR71 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SR71-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: SR 71	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  APRIL 11, 2016
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Berryhill, Runner, Anderson, Bates,
Cannella, Fuller, Gaines, Hall, Hertzberg, Huff, Moorlach, Morrell,
Nguyen, Nielsen, Stone, and Vidak

                        MARCH 31, 2016

   Relative to organ donation


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
             HOUSE OR SENATE RESOLUTIONS DO NOT CONTAIN A DIGEST



   WHEREAS, The Legislature has established an official state organ
and tissue donor registry that has become the largest in the world,
with 13 million people signed up to save and heal the lives of others
after death; and
   WHEREAS, The 10-year official partnership between Donate Life
California and the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has produced 95
percent of donors on the registry through the DMV with a simple
checkoff box; and
   WHEREAS, The Legislature has approved the innovative Living
Donation California information and referral tool to encourage living
kidney donation; and
   WHEREAS, Our Superintendent of Public Instruction has recognized
Donate Life California's high school education program, which has
educated students about organ, eye, and tissue donation for the past
six years and is anticipated to be added to the science frameworks;
and
   WHEREAS, The Senate acknowledges that California has the greatest
need for transplantation in the nation with 22,000 residents waiting
for a second chance at life, representing one in five on the national
waiting list; and
   WHEREAS, The Senate acknowledges that 918 Californians became
organ donors in 2015 and 3,417 life-saving transplants were performed
in our state that year. Tragically, 929 people died while waiting
due to the shortage of available organs; and
   WHEREAS, The Senate sadly acknowledges that in 2015, California
had the longest waiting time and most deaths while waiting, and that
only 40 percent of Californians sign up as donors; now, therefore, be
it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, That in
recognition of the month of April as National Donate Life Month, the
Senate proclaims the month of April 2016 as DMV/Donate Life
Partnership Month in the State of California; and be it further
   Resolved, That in doing so, the Senate encourages all Californians
to register with the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor
Registry by checking "YES!" for organ and tissue donation 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 Senate underscores its renewed efforts to save
more lives through donor registration and calls on all members of the
Senate to consider how to share information about the cause and
about actions to help their constituents in need; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.