Bill Text: NY J02304 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim April 2020, as Youth Sports Safety Month in the State of New York

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-01-14 - ADOPTED [J02304 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-J02304-Introduced.html

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Senate Resolution No. 2304

BY: Senator CARLUCCI

        MEMORIALIZING Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim
        April  2020,  as  Youth  Sports  Safety Month in the
        State  of  New  York,  in   conjunction   with   the
        observance of National Youth Sports Safety Month

  WHEREAS,  The  State  of  New  York  takes  great  pride  in calling
attention to  awareness  of  serious  injuries  which  affect  many  New
Yorkers; and

  WHEREAS,  It  is  the  sense of this Legislative Body to memorialize
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim April 2020, as Youth Sports  Safety
Month  in  the  State of New York, in conjunction with the observance of
National Youth Sports Safety Month; and

  WHEREAS, April is National Youth Sports Safety Month; more  than  60
national  medical and sports organizations support National Youth Sports
Safety  Month,  including  American  College  of  Sports  Medicine,  The
President's  Council  on  Physical  Fitness  and  sports, and the United
States Olympic Committee; and

  WHEREAS, Each year, over  20  million  kids  in  the  United  States
participate   in   sports   and   almost   one  million  suffer  serious
sports-related injuries; and

  WHEREAS, In most cases, sports-related injuries are preventable, yet
according to the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) and Sage
Kids USA, more than half (62 percent) of sports  injuries  occur  during
practice; and

  WHEREAS,  Sports-related injuries include: overuse and over-training
injuries, heat exhaustion, debilitating bone, muscle  or  tendon  breaks
and tears, cardiac arrest, and head injuries; and

  WHEREAS,  Although  sports-related  injuries are serious and require
attention and awareness, concussions  seem  to  be  the  most  prevalent
critical  injury  in  youth  athletics, with millions occurring in young
athletes every year; and

  WHEREAS, Keeping sports safe requires an entire  culture  of  injury
awareness  and  prevention,  so adults should not ever tell their kid to
shake it off and keep playing, and kids should not hide injuries because
of fear of repercussions or a loss of playing time; and

  WHEREAS, New York State should make every effort to make sports safe
for our youth; the health and well-being of the youth of  the  State  of
New  York  is  of  paramount  importance  to this Legislative Body; now,
therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
memorialize  Governor  Andrew  M. Cuomo to proclaim April 2020, as Youth
Sports Safety Month in the State of New York, in  conjunction  with  the
observance of National Youth Sports Safety Month; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the  State  of
New York.