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Friday • June 26, 2015
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In Memory:
Happy Birthday Andy Lytle
June 25, 1984
“Thinking of you, Miss you, Love you!”
---Dad, Mom,
Sandy, and Ann
Senate Approves Local Senator’s Bill Promoting Organ Donation
The Senate earlier
this week approved legislation introduced by Senator Don White (R-Indiana) intended to promote
organ donation efforts
and donor designations
on Pennsylvania driver’s
licenses and identification cards.
“My bill is aimed at
increasing organ donor
designation by altering driver’s license and
identification card application forms,” Senator
White said. “My hope
is that this will lead to a
thoughtful discussion on
how Pennsylvania can
provide more options that
will help save lives.”
Senate Bill 398 would
redesign driver’s license
and identification card
applications to include
the question “Do you
wish to have organ donor
designation printed on
your driver’s license?”
“This question, although it is required to
be asked, is not printed
on all driver’s license/
identification
forms,”
Senator White said. “My
bill would also require a
phrase to be added to all
forms stating that Pennsylvania strongly supports organ and tissue
donation because of its
life-saving and life-enhancing opportunities.”
According to the Donate Life America web-
site, more than 117,000
men, women and children currently need organ
transplants.
Every 10 minutes another name is added to
the national organ transplant waiting list and an
average of 18 people die
each day due to the lack
of available organs for
transplant.
While 90 percent of
Americans say they support donation, only about
half of eligible Pennsylvanians have organ donation designated on their
driver’s license.
KP
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