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                                                                  SCR 16
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          Date of Hearing:   March 31, 2009

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                 Ted W. Lieu, Chair
                     SCR 16 (Runner) - As Amended:  March 2, 2009

           SENATE VOTE  :   33-0
           
          SUBJECT  :   DMV/Donate Life California Registry.

           SUMMARY  :   Proclaims April 4, 2009, as DMV/Donate Life  
          California Day and the month of April 2009 as DMV/Donate Life  
          California Month; and encourages all Californians to sign up  
          with the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.  
           Specifically,  this resolution  makes the following legislative  
          findings:  

            1)  An individual's donation of the heart, lungs, liver,  
              kidneys, pancreas, and small intestine can save up to eight  
              lives; a donation of tissue can save and enhance up to 50  
              others; and a single blood donation can help three people in  
              need.

            2)  Currently, more than 20,000 Californians and nearly  
              100,000 individuals nationwide are on the national organ  
              transplant wait list; and 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)  California residents can register with the Donate Life  
              California Registry when applying for or renewing their  
              driver's licenses or identification cards at the Department  
              of Motor Vehicles (DMV); and more than four million  
              Californians have joined together to save and enhance lives  
              by becoming registered donors..

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          Donate Life California

           Opposition 








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          None on file.

           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Anna McCabe / RLS. / (916) 319-2800