BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
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29 (Frazier)
As Amended April 13, 2015
Majority vote
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|Committee |Votes|Ayes |Noes |
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|---------------+-----+----------------------+----------------------|
|Rules |11-0 |Gordon, Chang, Burke, | |
| | |Campos, Cooley, Dodd, | |
| | |Jones, Mayes, | |
| | |Rodriguez, Waldron, | |
| | |Wood | |
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SUMMARY: Designates 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. Specifically, this
resolution makes the following legislative findings and
declarations:
1)Organ, tissue, eye, and blood donation are compassionate and
life-giving acts looked upon and recognized in the highest
regard. 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 lives
of up to 50 others, and a single blood donation can help save
three people in need.
2)There are currently more than 123,000 individuals nationwide
and over 22,000 Californians currently on the national organ
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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.
3)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; which is on its tenth year as the official
partner of Donate Life California.
4)Nearly 12 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 their
wishes of donating their organs are recognized and honored.
5)Minorities are more likely to need a life-saving transplant
due higher incidences of hypertension, diabetes, and
hepatitis, which are conditions that can potentially lead to
organ failure. In California, Latinos make up 39% of those
waiting for life-saving transplants, Pacific Islanders make up
20%, and African Americans another 12%.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
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Analysis Prepared by: Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916)
319-2800 FN: 0000126