Bill Text: MI HR0035 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: A resolution to declare March 2019 as Athletic Trainer Month in the state of Michigan.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Passed) 2019-03-07 - Adopted [HR0035 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HR0035-Enrolled.html
Reps. Farrington, Berman, Clemente, Crawford, Garza, Jones, Shannon, Sneller, Tate, Wittenberg and Witwer offered the following resolution:
House Resolution No. 35.
A resolution to declare March 2019 as Athletic Trainer Month in the state of Michigan.
Whereas, Athletic trainers have a long history of providing quality health care for many types of patients and have acquired specific knowledge and skills through their nationally regulated educational processes; and
Whereas, Athletic trainers provide for the treatment of an injury or illness through risk management and injury prevention, wellness promotion, clinical evaluation and assessment, immediate and emergency care, and through rehabilitation and reconditioning; and
Whereas, The National Athletic Trainers Association represents and supports 45,000 members of the athletic training profession, and more than 1,600 licensed in the state of Michigan, employed in professional and Olympic sports, colleges and universities, high schools, clinics, rural and urban hospitals, urgent and ambulatory care centers, corporate and industrial settings, performing arts centers, military branches, police and fire departments and physician practices; and
Whereas, Leading organizations concerned with athletic training and health care have joined together in a common desire to raise public awareness of the importance of the athletic training profession and to emphasize the importance of quality health care within the aforementioned settings. Such an effort will promote the athletic training profession and provide compassionate health care for all; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representative, That the members of this legislative body declare March 2019 as Athletic Trainer Month in the state of Michigan.
