Bill Text: CA ACR12 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Trisomy Awareness Month.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 59-17)

Status: (Passed) 2023-04-19 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 26, Statutes of 2023. [ACR12 Detail]

Download: California-2023-ACR12-Chaptered.html

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Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 12

CHAPTER 26

Relative to Trisomy Awareness Month.

[ Filed with Secretary of State  April 19, 2023. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

ACR 12, Stephanie Nguyen. Trisomy Awareness Month.

This measure would declare the month of March 2023 as Trisomy Awareness Month in California.

Digest Key

Fiscal Committee: NO  

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Bill Text

WHEREAS, During the month of March, “Trisomy Awareness Month” is observed to encourage citizens to increase their awareness of trisomy, a genetic disorder that deeply affects families; and

WHEREAS, Trisomy is the presence within a person’s cells of a single extra chromosome, yielding a total of three chromosomes instead of a pair. As a type of aneuploidy, trisomy can occur with any of the 23 pairs of chromosomes individuals have; and

WHEREAS, The most common trisomies in newborns are trisomy 21, or Down syndrome, trisomy 18, or Edwards syndrome, and trisomy 13, or Patau syndrome; and

WHEREAS, Local support groups, medical professionals, and online communities offer education, encouragement, and counseling for those managing trisomy pregnancies or raising trisomy-affected children; and

WHEREAS, Now is the time for all Californians to educate themselves on all forms of trisomy, support families currently experiencing trisomy, and participate in helping people with developmental disabilities achieve their full potential; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature declares the month of March 2023 as Trisomy Awareness Month in California and commends this observation to all or our citizens; and be it further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.