Bill Text: PA HB1164 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for applicability of act.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-14 - Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS [HB1164 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1164-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1270
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1164 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY GODSHALL, BAKER, BOBACK, BOYD, BRADFORD, CLYMER, FABRIZIO, GEIST, GEORGE, GILLEN, HARPER, KORTZ, MAJOR, MATZIE, MILLARD, PASHINSKI, PETRARCA, PICKETT, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROCK, SAINATO, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SWANGER AND VULAKOVICH, MARCH 23, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MARCH 23, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 2, 2006 (P.L.292, No.65), entitled "An
act relating to organ and bone marrow donation; providing for
a special leave of absence for organ and bone marrow donors;
and providing for a tax credit and for additional duties of
the Department of Revenue," further providing for
applicability of act.
The General Assembly finds as follows:
(1) Each year an estimated 137,000 Americans contract
leukemia, lymphoma anemia or other fatal blood diseases.
(2) If a matched bone marrow donor can be found, many of
these victims can be cured.
(3) There is now a National Marrow Donor Program, and
the United States is working with 30 other countries to
establish a worldwide registry.
(4) Marrow donation does not involve considerable risk
to the donor.
(5) There are approximately 110,500 patients in the
United States and approximately 8,000 patients in this
Commonwealth awaiting lifesaving organ transplants.
(6) Many patients awaiting organ transplants could
benefit from living organ donation, including approximately
93,000 kidney patients, 16,900 liver patients and 2,000 lung
patients.
(7) Of the more than 1,700 organ transplants performed
in this Commonwealth in 2010, approximately 300 were from
living donors.
(8) There continues to be a great need for bone marrow
and organ donors among the African-American, Asian, Native
American and Hispanic communities.
(9) Potential living bone marrow and organ donors should
be able to perform their lifesaving service without risk of
loss of income or employment.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6 of act of July 2, 2006 (P.L.292,
No.65), known as the Organ and Bone Marrow Donor Act, is amended
to read:
Section 6. Applicability.
This act shall apply to tax years commencing on or after
January 1, 2006[, through any taxable year commencing within
2010, and carryover credits provided for in section 3(c) may be
used after 2010].
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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