Bill Text: FL S1068 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Brain Injury Awareness Month

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-18 - Adopted, companion bill(s) passed, see HR 9021 (Adopted) [S1068 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S1068-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                            (NP)    SR 1068
       
       
        
       By Senator Bean
       
       
       
       
       
       4-01688-15                                            20151068__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing March 2015 as “Brain Injury
    3         Awareness Month” in Florida.
    4  
    5         WHEREAS, each year, about 136,000 Floridians suffer
    6  traumatic brain injuries, and
    7         WHEREAS, more than 9,800 Floridians sustain permanent,
    8  lifelong disabilities from traumatic brain injury, resulting in
    9  a life-altering experience that may include serious physical,
   10  cognitive, and emotional impairments, and
   11         WHEREAS, more than 214,000 Floridians currently live with
   12  permanent disabilities resulting from a traumatic brain injury,
   13  but the lack of public awareness is so pervasive that traumatic
   14  brain injury is known in the disability community as the “silent
   15  epidemic,” and
   16         WHEREAS, traumatic brain injury attributable to roadside
   17  bombs and blasts is one of the signature wounds of the global
   18  War on Terror, and military personnel who return to this state
   19  with traumatic brain injuries require additional state and local
   20  resources, and
   21         WHEREAS, most cases of traumatic brain injury are
   22  preventable, and enhanced public awareness of traumatic brain
   23  injury is essential in injury prevention, the development of
   24  effective treatment, and securing necessary resources, and
   25         WHEREAS, founded in 1985, the Brain Injury Association of
   26  Florida, Inc., is the only statewide nonprofit corporation whose
   27  mission is to improve the quality of life for all persons with
   28  brain injury and their families by creating a better future
   29  through brain injury awareness, research, prevention, education,
   30  support services, and advocacy, NOW, THEREFORE,
   31  
   32  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   34         That March 2015 is recognized as “Brain Injury Awareness
   35  Month” in Florida.
   36         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution, with
   37  the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to the Brain Injury
   38  Association of Florida, Inc., as a tangible token of the
   39  sentiments of the Florida Senate.