BILL NUMBER: AB 1967	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member John A. Pérez

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to add Section 33542 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1967, as introduced, John A. Pérez. Pupil instruction: health
education: organ and tissue donation.
   Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to
recommend curriculum frameworks for adoption by the State Board of
Education in accordance with regulations. Existing law defines
"curriculum framework" as an outline of the components of a given
course of study designed to provide state direction to school
districts in the provision of instructional programs.
   This bill would require the commission and the state board to
ensure that the health curriculum framework adopted in the course of
the next submission cycle, as specified, includes the subject of
organ procurement and tissue donation.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) There are more than 100,000 people on the national organ
transplant waiting list, and more than 21,000, or 21 percent, of
those people live in California.
   (b) Currently only 18 percent of California drivers are designated
as organ or tissue donors.
   (c) Californians who apply for a California driver's license are
asked whether or not they would like to donate their organs and
tissue. It is important that, if we are asking that question, we are
allowing the individual to make an informed decision.
   (d) There is an urgent need to educate the public about organ and
tissue donation.
  SEC. 2.  Section 33542 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   33542.  The commission and the state board shall ensure that the
health curriculum framework adopted in the course of the next
submission cycle following the date that this section becomes
effective includes the subject of organ procurement and tissue
donation.