Bill Text: FL S1136 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Brain Injury Awareness Month
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-09 - Introduced -SJ 158 [S1136 Detail]
Download: Florida-2011-S1136-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2011 (NP) SR 1136
By Senator Bennett
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1 Senate Resolution
2 A resolution recognizing March 2011 as “Brain Injury
3 Awareness Month” in Florida.
4
5 WHEREAS, 100,000 Floridians annually sustain a traumatic
6 brain injury, and
7 WHEREAS, more than 8,400 Floridians sustain permanent,
8 life-long disabilities from a traumatic brain injury that
9 results in a life-altering experience that may include serious
10 physical, cognitive, and emotional impairments, and
11 WHEREAS, more than 210,000 Floridians currently live with
12 permanent disabilities resulting from a traumatic brain injury,
13 but the lack of public awareness is so vast that traumatic brain
14 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 the signature wound of the global War on
18 Terror, and military personnel who return to Florida with
19 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 preventing and developing effective
24 treatment and providing necessary resources, and
25 WHEREAS, the Brain Injury Association of Florida, Inc., has
26 recognized March as “Brain Injury Awareness Month,” NOW,
27 THEREFORE,
28
29 Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
30
31 That March 2011 is recognized as “Brain Injury Awareness
32 Month” in Florida.
