BILL ANALYSIS
SB 1395
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Date of Hearing: August 4, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
SB 1395 (Alquist) - As Amended: June 30, 2010
Policy Committee: HealthVote:19-0
Transportation 14-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable:
SUMMARY
This bill increases organ donation-related activities in
California. Specifically, this bill:
1)Authorizes specified California organ procurement
organizations to establish the Altruistic Living Donor
Registry (Registry) to maintain information about living
potential kidney donors and to promote and assist with live
kidney donation, donor chains, paired exchanges and
nondirected donations and make specified information available
to the public.
2)Authorizes the Registry administrator to accept voluntary
financial contributions to support the Registry.
3)On and after July 1, 2011 requires a Department of Motor
Vehicle (DMV) application for a driver's license to include
check boxes to mark either" Yes, add my name to the donor
registry" or " I do not wish to register at this time".
Requires notification to be provided with the check boxes as
to the meaning of each answer. Requires DMV to transmit
related information weekly to the Registry.
4)Requires the submission of an annual report about the summary
data of potential donors to legislative policy and fiscal
committees.
FISCAL EFFECT
Minor absorbable workload to the DMV to comply with license
application form modifications and related reporting on
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potential donors. The organ procurement organizations addressed
in this bill are private, non-profit organizations and are not
supported by GF.
COMMENTS
1)Rationale . This bill is sponsored by the governor to increase
the number of potential organ donors statewide. According to
the author, this bill creates the first altruistic living
donor registry in the country. Under current law 27% of DMV
license applicants designate themselves as potential organ
donors, an increase of 20% since the enactment of SB 689
(Speier), Chapter 665, Statutes of 2005. SB 689 required DMV
to collect organ and tissue donor designation information on
drivers' license applications and linked DMV data with Donate
Life California, a statewide organ donor registry established
in 2004.
2)Background . In California, four non-profit, federally
designated organ procurement organizations work closely with
hospitals and transplant centers to facilitate the organ
donation and transplantation process. These four organizations
are the California Transplant Donor Network, in northern and
central California; the Golden State Donor Services, in the
Sacramento region; the Lifesharing Community Organ & Tissue
Donation, in San Diego and Imperial Counties; and, OneLegacy,
in the Los Angeles area.
Donate Life California, the statewide registry, allows adults to
donate specific or all organs or tissue upon death. Children
between the ages of 13 and 17 can join the registry, but a
parent or legal guardian is authorized to make the final
decision about organ and tissue donation. More than one
million residents statewide have registered with Donate Life
California.
3)Organ transplantation is required when organs fail due to
disease or injury. Not all organs can be transplanted. The
most common organ transplants and five-year survival rates are
the kidney (85%), heart (70%), lung (50%), pancreas (85%), and
liver (75%).
Analysis Prepared by : Mary Ader / APPR. / (916) 319-2081