California Senate Bill SCR16 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SCR 16AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 2, 2009 AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 2, 2009 INTRODUCED BY Senators Runner and Benoit (Coauthors: Senators Cox, DeSaulnier, Florez, and Harman) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, De Leon, DeVore, Duvall, Fletcher, Hall, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Krekorian, Ma, Monning, Niello, Portantino, Silva, Smyth,  and Solorio   Solorio,   Adams,   Ammiano,   Anderson,   Arambula,   Bass,   Beall,   Blakeslee,   Block,   Blumenfield,   Brownley,   Buchanan,   Caballero,   Charles Calderon,   Carter,  Chesbro,   Conway,   Cook,   Coto,   De La Torre,   Emmerson,   Eng,   Evans,   Feuer,   Fong,   Fuentes,   Fuller,   Furutani,   Gaines,   Galgiani,  Garrick,   Gilmore,   Harkey,   Hayashi,   Hernandez,   Hill,   Huber,   Logue,  Bonnie Lowenthal,   Mendoza,   Miller,   Nava,   Nestande,   Nielsen,   John A. Perez,   V. Manuel Perez,   Price,   Ruskin,   Salas,   Saldana,   Skinner,   Audra Strickland,   Swanson,   Torlakson,   Torres,   Torrico,   Villines,   and Yamada  ) FEBRUARY 23, 2009 Relative to DMV/Donate Life California Registry. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SCR 16, as amended, Runner. DMV/Donate Life California Registry. This measure would proclaim April 4, 2009, as DMV/Donate Life California Day and the month of April 2009 as DMV/Donate Life California Month. This measure would encourage all Californians to sign up with the Donate Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry. Fiscal committee: no. WHEREAS, Organ, tissue, and blood donation are compassionate and life-giving acts looked upon and recognized in the highest regard; and WHEREAS, Nearly 100,000 individuals nationwide and more than 20,000 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, and blood; and WHEREAS, Californians by the millions are joining together to save and enhance lives by becoming registered donors. More than four million Californians have signed up with the state-authorized Donate Life California Registry to ensure that their wishes to be an organ 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 drivers' s license or identification card at the Department of Motor Vehicles; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That in recognition of April as National Donate Life Month, the Legislature proclaims April 4, 2009, as DMV/Donate Life California Day in the State of California, and April 2009 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 Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.