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                                                                  HR 19
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          Date of Hearing:   August 22, 2011

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
                HR 19 (John A. Pérez) - As Introduced:  July 14, 2011
           
          SUBJECT  :   National Minority Donor Awareness Month.

           SUMMARY  :   Proclaims August 2011 as National Minority Donor 
          Awareness Month in California; and encourages all California 
          educators to provide an opportunity for students to be educated 
          about the decision to be an organ donor when applying for a 
          driver license or identification card and about signing up at 
          specific organ donation websites.   Specifically,  this 
          resolution  makes the following legislative findings: 

          1)Nationwide, minorities make up 54 percent of organ transplant 
            candidates and more than 60 percent of those awaiting kidney 
            transplants; and minorities are more likely to need a 
            life-saving transplant due to high incidences of hypertension, 
            diabetes, and hepatitis, conditions that can potentially lead 
            to organ failure and placement on the national organ 
            transplant waiting list.

          2)According to the State Department of Education, minorities 
            make up over one-half of the population of high school 
            students in California; and these students will have the 
            opportunity to make a decision about their wishes to be organ 
            and tissue donors.

          3)Donate Life California has developed an Educator Resource that 
            includes many of the health education content standards for 
            California public schools to fully inform students that all 
            Californians can register with the Donate Life California 
            Registry when applying for a driver license or identification 
            card at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

          4)More than 110,000 individuals nationwide and more than 21,000 
            Californians are currently on the national organ transplant 
            waiting list; and an individual's donation of their heart, 
            lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, and small intestine can save 
            up to eight lives.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None









                                                                  HR 19
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          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file.

           Opposition 
           
          None on file.

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