IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 11 
Expressing support for designation of January 2015 as ‘‘National Blood 
Donor Month’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2015 
Mr. QUIGLEY (for himself, Ms. LEE, and Mr. HECK of Nevada) submitted the 
following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for designation of January 2015 as 
‘‘National Blood Donor Month’’. 
Whereas America’s Blood Centers, AABB, and the American 
Red Cross unite to designate January 2015 as ‘‘National 
Blood Donor Month’’; 
Whereas donating 1 unit of blood helps save as many as 3 
lives; 
Whereas blood donors are an integral part of the health sys-
tem and national public health preparedness initiatives in 
the United States; 
Whereas blood and blood products are critical national re-
sources and vital public health assets that must be read-
ily available at all times; 
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Whereas every 2 seconds, a person in the United States needs 
blood for lifesaving treatment in an emergency or a dis-
aster, a routine surgery, a blood transfusion to help treat 
a serious disease like cancer, or an organ or bone marrow 
transplant; 
Whereas 1 in 7 patients who enter a hospital in the United 
States needs blood; 
Whereas more than 20,000,000 blood components are used in 
transfusions every year in the United States; 
Whereas over 39,000 units of blood are needed each day in 
the United States to maintain a safe and adequate blood 
supply; 
Whereas 9,200,000 donors give blood each year in the United 
States; 
Whereas approximately 38 percent of the United States pop-
ulation is eligible to give blood, but less than 10 percent 
of the eligible population donates blood on an annual 
basis; 
Whereas blood transfusions require generous and altruistic 
volunteer donors; 
Whereas it is vital that the blood donation policies, including 
donor deferral policies, in the United States keep pace 
with medical science to ensure that the United States has 
a robust, eligible population of donors to maintain a safe 
and adequate blood supply; and 
Whereas America’s Blood Centers, AABB, and the American 
Red Cross support and perform critical services col-
lecting, processing, and distributing lifesaving blood and 
blood products to hospitals and health providers, and are 
instrumental in ensuring the safety of the blood supply 
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and promoting the need for blood donations: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) supports the designation of ‘‘National Blood 
Donor Month’’; 
(2) acknowledges the important role of volun-
teer blood donors in protecting the health and emer-
gency preparedness security of the United States; 
(3) recognizes the need to promote a safe, sta-
ble blood supply and to increase volunteer participa-
tion of blood donors; 
(4) endorses efforts to update blood donation 
policies in a safe and scientifically sound manner to 
maintain an adequate blood supply; and 
(5) recognizes the roles of America’s Blood 
Centers, AABB, and the American Red Cross in en-
suring the safety of the blood supply in the United 
States and delivering lifesaving blood and blood 
products to health providers and patients. 
Æ 
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