BILL NUMBER: AB 1118	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member John A. Pérez

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 51882 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1118, as introduced, John A. Pérez. Pupil instruction: health
education: organ and tissue donation.
   (1) The Comprehensive Health Education Act of 1977 requires the
State Department of Education to prepare and distribute to school
districts guidelines for the preparation of comprehensive health
education plans, and, in cooperation with county offices of education
that desire to participate, to assist school districts in developing
comprehensive health education plans and programs.
   This bill would require school districts to offer pupils who are
enrolled in health classes during grade 9 or 10 at least 15 minutes
of instruction on organ procurement and tissue donation designed to
develop a knowledge of the potentially lifesaving results achieved
through organ and tissue transplantation. By requiring school
districts to provide organ procurement and tissue donation
instruction, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) There are more than 100,000 people on the national organ
transplant waiting list, and more than 21,000, or 21 percent, of
those people live in California.
   (b) Currently only 18 percent of California drivers are designated
as organ or tissue donors.
   (c) Californians who apply for a California driver's license are
asked whether or not they would like to donate their organs and
tissue. It is important that, if we are asking that question, we are
allowing the individual to make an informed decision.
   (d) There is an urgent need to educate the public about organ and
tissue donation.
  SEC. 2.  Section 51882 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   51882.  A school district shall offer pupils who are enrolled in
health classes during grade 9 or 10 at least 15 minutes of
instruction on organ procurement and tissue donation designed to
develop a knowledge of the potentially lifesaving results achieved
through organ and tissue transplantation.
  SEC. 3.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.