Bill Text: TX HB2597 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designating May 17 as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Day.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2597 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2597-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2597 | ||
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| relating to designating May 17 as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma | ||
| Awareness Day. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 662.071 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.071. DIFFUSE INTRINSIC PONTINE GLIOMA AWARENESS | ||
| DAY. (a) May 17 is Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Day | ||
| to raise awareness about the prevalence and deadliness of diffuse | ||
| intrinsic pontine glioma, a pediatric brain tumor. | ||
| (b) Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Day shall be | ||
| regularly observed by appropriate programs and activities. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2597 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2597 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
