BILL ANALYSIS
SCR 16
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SENATE THIRD READING
SCR 16 (Runner)
As Amended March 2, 2009
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE : 33-0
RULES 11-0
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|Ayes:|Lieu, Blakeslee, Adams, | | |
| |Ammiano, Gaines, Hall, | | |
| |Mendoza, Silva, Swanson, | | |
| |Torlakson, Yamada | | |
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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 Organ and Tissue Donor 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
SCR 16
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Analysis Prepared by : Anna McCabe / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
FN: 0000226