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Date:10/15/2007

istrator of the state-authorized organ and tissue donor registry. "The opportunity to donate organs is rare, as only one in 100 deaths is medically feasible for donation. The revised UAGA helps make the best of every single donation opportunity by clarifying legal ambiguities and family dynamics that can cause delay or stand in the way of an individual or family's choice to donate. We thank Assemblywoman Lieber and Assemblyman Berryhill for their leadership in bringing California's existing laws on donation into one standardized, uniform piece of legislation that is consistent with other states."

The revised UAGA has an impact on first-person consent as it applies to state donor registries. Since 1993, more than 40 states have instituted computerized donor registries to record one's personal decision to donate. Like most other states, the Donate Life California Organ & Tissue Donor Registry is a first-person consent registry that allows Californians to make a legally binding decision to be organ and tissue donors upon death, and doesn't require the consent of any other person.

"Donor registries have replaced donor cards as the primary tool for making anatomical gifts," Stewart explained. "The UAGA makes other states' first-person consent registries legally binding in California in the event that an out-of-state designated donor dies in our state." The reciprocal is true in states where the revised UAGA is adopted.

In all cases in which an eligible donor has not registered with Donate Life California, the donation decision falls to the potential donor's closest legal contacts, starting with immediate family members. In the absence of family members, the newly approved UAGA expands the list of individuals who can make this decision to include grandchildren and close friends who exhibited special care and concern for the deceased individual.

The new law also affects the family's donation decision. When an individual does not leave an advance dir
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