California Health and Safety Code

§ 7152.1

HSC § 7152.1 Effective Jan 1, 2011Div. 7 · Part 1 · Ch. 3.56

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1)More than 20,000 Californians are currently waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, and over 17,000 of those individuals are waiting for a kidney transplant. Based on the current trend in organ donations, one in three of those waiting for a transplant will die. In 2009, 5,874 Americans died while waiting for a transplant.

(2)On a national level, the number of organ donors increased by 3 percent from the years 2008 to 2009, while the number of organ donors in California decreased by 2 percent during this same time period. In 2009, there were only 798 cadaveric donors and 734 living donors in California.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 217, Sec. 1. (SB 1395) Effective January 1, 2011.