Bill Text: PA HR706 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designating March 30, 2010, as "National Doctors' Day" in Pennsylvania.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-03-24 - Adopted [HR706 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR706-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3433
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 706 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, PICKETT, DiGIROLAMO, SAYLOR AND KNOWLES, MARCH 23, 2010
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, MARCH 23, 2010
A RESOLUTION
Designating March 30, 2010, as "National Doctors' Day" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, National Doctors' Day is held every year on March 30
in the United States as a day to celebrate the contribution of
physicians who serve our country by caring for its citizens; and
WHEREAS, The first Doctors' Day observance was March 30,
1933, in Winder, Georgia, when Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr.
Charles B. Almond, decided to set aside a day to honor
physicians; and
WHEREAS, In 1990, Congress designated March 30, 1991, as
"National Doctors' Day" by the joint resolution of October 30,
1990 (Public Law 101-473, 104 Stat. 1096); and
WHEREAS, Society owes a debt of gratitude to physicians for
the contributions of physicians in enlarging the reservoir of
scientific knowledge, increasing the number of scientific tools
and expanding the ability of health professionals to use the
knowledge and tools effectively in the never-ending fight
against disease; and
WHEREAS, Society owes a debt of gratitude to physicians for
the sympathy and compassion of physicians in ministering to the
sick and in alleviating human suffering; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives designate March
30, 2010, as "National Doctors' Day" in Pennsylvania.
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