| R 200 |
| 2024 -- H 8137 Enacted 04/04/2024 |
| H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N |
| CELEBRATING APRIL OF 2024, AS "ORGAN DONATION MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND |
Introduced By: Representatives Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Potter, Chippendale, Giraldo, Morales, Cruz, Edwards, Kennedy, and Bennett |
| Date Introduced: April 04, 2024 |
| WHEREAS, Each and every day new people join the national organ transplant waiting |
| list. Sadly, many of them will die because not enough organs are available for transplant, and |
| thousands of others whose lives would greatly benefit from the gift of an organ, eye, or tissue |
| donation continue to wait and hope; and |
| WHEREAS, There are more than 100,000 Americans, with 6,000 in New England who |
| are currently waiting for a life-saving organ transplant; and |
| WHEREAS, Organ donation is oftentimes the only hope at a new life for people with |
| end-stage organ failure. There are over one million life-enhancing tissue transplants each year |
| that are made possible by the generous donation of corneas, bone, skin or other tissue; and |
| WHEREAS, Organ and tissue donor donation can help to save someone's life and |
| benefits up to 50 recipients by simply signing up and enrolling in the Rhode Island Donor |
| Registry when applying for, or renewing a driver's license, or by registering on-line at |
| www.RegisterMe.org; and |
| WHEREAS, In Rhode Island, 99 percent of all people who register to become a donor do |
| so at the Division of Motor Vehicles, and it is fitting that Rhode Island joins in the national goal |
| of signing up 50 percent of the State's driving population to become donors, and is dedicated to |
| making it faster and easier to sign up to save a life through the Division of Motor Vehicles; and |
| WHEREAS, Organ Donation Month pays tribute to organ and tissue donors and their |
| families whose decision to Donate Life enables others to receive life-saving organs and tissues for |
| transplant; now, therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island hereby |
| celebrates April of 2024, as "Organ Donation Month" and urges all the citizens of Rhode Island |
| to take cognizance of this event and participate fittingly in its observance by getting the Heart on |
| their Driver's license, ID or real ID, and register as an organ donor; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to Mr. Walter Craddock, Administrator, RI |
| Division of Motor Vehicles, and Alexandra K. Glazier, President and Chief Executive Officer, |
| New England Donor Services. |
| ======== |
| LC005750 |
| ======== |