Amended in Assembly April 7, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 125

Introduced by Assembly Member John A. Pérez

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(Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, and Yamada)

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March 28, 2014

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 125—Relative to organ donation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

ACR 125, as amended, John A. Pérez. Donate Life California Day: driver’s license.

This measure would designate April 7, 2014, as DMV/Donate Life California Day in the State of California and the month of April 2014, as DMV/Donate Life California Month in the State of California, and would encourage all Californians to sign up with the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.

Fiscal committee: no.

WHEREAS, Organ, tissue, eye, and blood donation are
compassionate and life-giving acts looked upon and recognized
in the highest regard; and

WHEREAS, More than 121,000 individuals nationwide and
over 21,000 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; and

WHEREAS, 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; and

WHEREAS, Millions of lives each year are saved and enhanced
by donors of organs, tissue, eyes, and blood; and

WHEREAS, Californians by the millions are joining together
to save and enhance lives by becoming registered donors. Nearly
eleven million Californians have signed up with the
state-authorized Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor
Registry to ensure that their wishes to be an organ, eye, and tissue
donor are honored; and

WHEREAS, 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; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That in recognition of April as National Donate
Life Month, the Legislature proclaims April 7, 2014, as
DMV/Donate Life California Day in the State of California, and
April 2014 as DMV/Donate Life California Month in the State of
California. In doing so, the Legislature encourages all Californians
to check “YES” when applying for or renewing a driver’s license
or identification card, or by signing up at
www.donatelifecalifornia.org or www.donevidacalifornia.org; and
be it further

Resolved, that the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies
of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.