BILL NUMBER: AB 1297	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member John A. Pérez

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1297, as introduced, John A. Pérez. Coroners: organ donation.
   Existing law requires the application for an original or renewal
driver's license or identification card to contain a space for the
applicant to enroll in the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue
Donor Registry and requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, on a
weekly basis, to electronically transmit to Donate Life California, a
nonprofit organization established and designated as the California
Organ and Tissue Donor Registrar, specified information on applicants
that enroll in the organ donation program.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would codify the process to be followed by coroners
and organ procurement organizations for donation of organs after
cardiac death.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would codify the process to be followed by coroners
and organ procurement organizations for donation of organs after
cardiac death.