Bill Text: CA ACR46 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 58-14-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-04-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 36, Statutes of 2019. [ACR46 Detail]

Download: California-2019-ACR46-Chaptered.html

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 46
CHAPTER 36

Relative to Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.

[ Filed with Secretary of State  April 09, 2019. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


ACR 46, McCarty. Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.
This measure would declare the week of March 10, 2019, through March 16, 2019, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, and would encourage residents of the State of California to join together in raising awareness and heightening public knowledge of this debilitating disease.
Fiscal Committee: NO  

WHEREAS, The week of March 10, 2019, through March 16, 2019, has been declared Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week in recognition of the importance of finding the cause of, and a cure for, multiple sclerosis and to express appreciation to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; and
WHEREAS, Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease of the cD450B1-FFC0-4FA1-8B0E-149C6A2F258B">
WHEREAS, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, founded in 1946, funds more research, offers more services for people with multiple sclerosis, and provides more professional education programs than any other multiple sclerosis organization in the world; and
WHEREAS, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is the largest private supporter of multiple sclerosis research in the world and, for more than 55 years, it has funded innovative research and advocated for government support of important scientific inquiries; and
WHEREAS, Throughout the years, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society has been committed to heightening public knowledge and insight, and is currently planning several major statewide educational programs to raise awareness about the effects of multiple sclerosis; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature declares the week of March 10, 2019, through March 16, 2019, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, and encourages the residents of the State of California to join together in raising awareness and heightening public knowledge of this debilitating disease; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.