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                                    THIRD READING


          Bill No:  ACR 125
          Author:   John A. Pérez (D), et al.
          Amended:  4/7/14 in Assembly
          Vote:     21

           
           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  Read and adopted, 4/7/14


           SUBJECT  :    Donate Life California Day

           SOURCE  :     Donate Life California


           DIGEST  :    This resolution designates April 7, 2014, as  
          DMV/Donate Life California Day and the month of April 2014, as  
          DMV/Donate Life California Month," and encourages all  
          Californians to sign up with the Donate Life California Organ  
          and Tissue Donor Registry.

           ANALYSIS  :    This resolution makes the following legislative  
          findings:

          1. Organ, tissue, eye, and blood donations are compassionate and  
             life-giving acts looked upon and recognized in the highest  
             regard; and a single individual's donation of heart, lungs,  
             liver, kidneys, pancreas, and small intestine can save up to  
             eight lives.  A donation of tissue can save and enhance the  
             lives of up to 50 others, and a single blood donation can  
             help three people.

          2. There are more than 121,000 individuals nationwide and over  
             21,000 Californians currently on the national organ  
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             transplant wait list and 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. Californians by the millions are joining together to save and  
             enhance lives by becoming registered donors.

          This resolution designates 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 encourages all Californians to sign up with  
          the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Fiscal Com.:  No

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  4/14/14)

          Donate Life California (source)
          Department of Motor Vehicle


          JA:d  4/14/14   Senate Floor Analyses 

                           SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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