Bill Text: NY K02346 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2024, as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Month, and June 27, 2024, as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day in the State of New York

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2024-06-03 - adopted [K02346 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-K02346-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 2346

BY: M. of A. Rules (Gunther)

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        June 2024, as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness
        Month, and June 27, 2024, as  Post-Traumatic  Stress
        Injury Awareness Day in the State of New York

  WHEREAS,  All  citizens of the United States possess the basic human
right to the preservation of personal dignity; and

  WHEREAS, All citizens of the United States deserve the investment of
every possible resource to ensure their lasting  physical,  mental,  and
emotional well-being; and

  WHEREAS,  The  diagnosis  known  as  Post-Traumatic  Stress Disorder
(PTSD) was initially formulated in  1980  by  the  American  Psychiatric
Association  to  more  accurately  assess  and  assist  veterans who had
endured severe combat stress in Vietnam; and

  WHEREAS, It has been  shown  though  electro-magnetic  imaging  that
these  wounds  can  cause  physical  changes to the brain which are more
accurately describe as an injury; and

  WHEREAS, Referring to  invisible  wounds  as  post-traumatic  stress
injury  (PTSI) can favorably influence those affected and encourage them
to seek treatment without fear of retribution or shame; and

  WHEREAS, Post-traumatic stress injury can occur  following  exposure
to  extremely  traumatic  events  other  than  combat  such  as, but not
exclusive to  interpersonal  violence,  life-threatening  accidents  and
natural disasters; and

  WHEREAS,  All  citizens  suffering from post-traumatic stress injury
deserve our compassion and consideration; those brave men and  women  of
the  United States Armed Forces who have received these wounds in action
against an enemy of the United States  further  deserve  our  clear  and
obvious recognition; and

  WHEREAS,  Timely  and appropriate treatment of post-traumatic stress
injury can diminish complications and avert suicides; now, therefore, be
it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
memorialize   Governor   Kathy   Hochul   to   proclaim  June  2024,  as
Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Month,  and  June  27,  2024,  as
Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day in the State of New York; and
be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  copies  of  this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of  New
York; and Thomas Mahany, Executive Director, Honor for ALL.