BILL NUMBER: SCR 16	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  APRIL 20, 2009
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 2, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 2, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 2, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Runner and Benoit
   (Coauthors: Senators Cox, DeSaulnier, Florez, and Harman)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, De
Leon, DeVore, Duvall, Fletcher, Hall, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones,
Knight, Krekorian, Ma, Monning, Niello, Portantino, Silva, Smyth,
Solorio, Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall, Blakeslee,
Block, Blumenfield, Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon,
Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, De La Torre, Emmerson, Eng,
Evans, Feuer, Fong, Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani,
Garrick, Gilmore, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Logue,
Bonnie Lowenthal, Mendoza, Miller, Nava, Nestande, Nielsen, John A.
Perez, V. Manuel Perez, Price, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Skinner, Audra
Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Villines, and
Yamada)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2009

   Relative to DMV/Donate Life California Registry.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 16, Runner. DMV/Donate Life California Registry.
   This measure would proclaim April 4, 2009, as DMV/Donate Life
California Day and the month of April 2009 as DMV/Donate Life
California Month. This measure would encourage all Californians to
sign up with the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor
Registry.




   WHEREAS, Organ, tissue, and blood donation are compassionate and
life-giving acts looked upon and recognized in the highest regard;
and
   WHEREAS, Nearly 100,000 individuals nationwide and more than
20,000 Californians are currently on the national organ 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; and
   WHEREAS, 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 the lives of up to 50
others, and a single blood donation can help three people in need;
and
   WHEREAS, Millions of lives each year are saved and enhanced by
donors of organs, tissue, and blood; and
   WHEREAS, Californians by the millions are joining together to save
and enhance lives by becoming registered donors. More than four
million Californians have signed up with the state-authorized Donate
Life California Registry to ensure that their wishes to be an organ
and tissue donor are honored; and
   WHEREAS, 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;
now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That in recognition of April as National Donate
Life Month, the Legislature proclaims April 4, 2009, as DMV/Donate
Life California Day in the State of California, and April 2009 as
DMV/Donate Life California Month in the State of California. In doing
so, the Legislature encourages all Californians to check "YES" when
applying for or renewing a driver's license or identification card,
or by signing up at www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org or
www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.