Bill Text: CT HB06100 | 2015 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 6100 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: An Act Designating Spinal Muscular Atrophy With Respiratory Distress Awareness Day And Dwarfism Awareness Month.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-11 - Transmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor [HB06100 Detail]

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General Assembly		*Committee Bill No. 6100*
*January Session, 2015*		LCO No. 5154
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Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT DESIGNATING SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY WITH RESPIRATORY DISTRESS AWARENESS DAY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 10-29a of the general statutes is amended by adding subdivision (69) as follows (Effective from passage):

(NEW) (69) The Governor shall proclaim February tenth of each year to be Spinal Muscular Atrophy with Respiratory Distress Awareness Day to heighten public awareness of the associated presentation and available treatments for spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress. Suitable exercises shall be held in the State Capitol and elsewhere as the Governor designates for the observance of the day.