BILL ANALYSIS
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SCR 16
Author: Runner (R), et al
Amended: 4/2/09
Vote: 21
SENATE FLOOR : 33-0, 3/12/09
AYES: Aanestad, Alquist, Ashburn, Benoit, Calderon,
Cogdill, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Denham, DeSaulnier,
Ducheny, Dutton, Florez, Hancock, Hollingsworth, Huff,
Kehoe, Leno, Liu, Lowenthal, Maldonado, Negrete McLeod,
Padilla, Pavley, Runner, Steinberg, Strickland, Walters,
Wiggins, Wolk, Wright, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Cedillo, Harman, Oropeza, Romero,
Simitian, Wyland
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 75-0, 4/2/09 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : DMV/Donate Life California Registry
SOURCE : Donate Life California
DIGEST : This resolution 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.
Assembly Amendments added co-authors.
ANALYSIS : This resolution finds:
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1.Organ, tissue, and blood donation are compassionate and
life-giving acts looked upon and recognized in the
highest regard.
2.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.
3.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.
4.Millions of lives each year are saved and enhanced by
donors of organs, tissue, and blood.
5.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.
6.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.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 4/13/09)
Donate Life California (source)
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office,
"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
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due to a shortage of donated organs. Therefore, it's
important to remind citizens who want to be donors how they
can go about signing up."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield,
Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter,
Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, De La Torre, De Leon,
DeVore, Duvall, Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher,
Fong, Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani,
Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez,
Hill, Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Krekorian,
Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava,
Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, John A. Perez, V. Manuel
Perez, Portantino, Price, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva,
Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson,
Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Villines, Yamada, Bass
NO VOTE RECORDED: Davis, Hall, Lieu, Ma, Tran
CTW:nl 4/13/09 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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