BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: February 1, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Gordon, Chair
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116 (McCarty) - As Introduced January 12, 2016
SUBJECT: National Kidney Month.
SUMMARY: Proclaims the month of March 2016, and each year
thereafter, as National Kidney Month in California, and would
express the Legislature's support of programs that work to,
among other things, increase awareness of kidney disease.
Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1)Approximately 50 years ago, kidney failure was a death
sentence, in 1972, the United States Congress developed the
Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) program and in doing
so, Congress ensured that regardless of age or income, any
American would have access to life-saving dialysis care.
2)One in 10 adults in the United States are living with kidney
disease; the leading causes are diabetes, high blood pressure,
and a family history of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
3)More than 26 million Americans have CKD, but most are unaware
that they have it, and another 73 million are at risk. Many
of them only discover they have kidney failure, also known as
end-stage renal disease (ESRD), when they "crash" in a
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hospital emergency room after fainting or suffering from
extreme dizziness.
4)According to statistics from the federal Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, one in three people with diabetes has
kidney disease; one in five adults with high blood pressure
has chronic kidney disease; African Americans are about three
and half times more likely to develop kidney failure than
Caucasians; Latinos are one and a half times more likely to
develop kidney failure than non-Latinos; and Asian and Pacific
Islander Americans are twice as likely to develop kidney
failure as Caucasians.
5)The only treatment options for kidney failure are a kidney
transplant or dialysis. There are more than 95,000
individuals waiting for kidney transplants.
FISCAL EFFECT: None on file
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
California Dialysis Council
DaVita Healthcare Partners
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
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