Bill Text: OH SCR15 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: To express the General Assembly's support of
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-12-11 - Concurrence [SCR15 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2011-SCR15-Enrolled.html
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Senator Schaffer
Cosponsors:
Senators Tavares, Jones, Bacon, Balderson, Beagle, Brown, Burke, Cafaro, Coley, Daniels, Eklund, Faber, Gentile, Hite, Hughes, Kearney, Lehner, Manning, Obhof, Oelslager, Patton, Schiavoni, Skindell, Smith, Wagoner
Representatives Gonzales, Fende, Antonio, Carney, Garland, Hackett, Hottinger, Johnson, Schuring, Yuko, Amstutz, Barnes, Beck, Blessing, Boyce, Bubp, Budish, Celebrezze, Celeste, Combs, Driehaus, Duffey, Fedor, Gardner, Gerberry, Letson, Mallory, McClain, Milkovich, Murray, O'Brien, Phillips, Pillich, Ramos, Ruhl, Sears, Slesnick, Sprague, Stautberg, Stinziano, Sykes, Szollosi, Wachtmann, Williams, Young Speaker Batchelder
| To express the General Assembly's support of | 1 |
| increasing public awareness of and education on | 2 |
| the importance of folic acid in the diets of women | 3 |
| of childbearing age. | 4 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING):
| WHEREAS, Sufficient folic acid in women's diets before and | 5 |
| during pregnancy can reduce the risk of birth defects of the brain | 6 |
| and spinal cord known as neural tube defects; and | 7 |
| WHEREAS, Neural tube defects occur in about one out of every | 8 |
| one thousand pregnancies in the United States; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, Studies have shown that neural tube defects could be | 10 |
| prevented if women consume the proper amounts of folic acid before | 11 |
| becoming pregnant and during early pregnancy; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, The Food and Nutrition Board of the National | 13 |
| Academies' Institute of Medicine, the United States Public Health | 14 |
| Service, and the United States Preventative Services Task Force | 15 |
| recommend that women who are of childbearing age should consume | 16 |
| four hundred micrograms of synthetic folic acid every day from a | 17 |
| vitamin or from fortified foods, in addition to eating a healthy | 18 |
| diet rich in natural sources of folate; and | 19 |
| WHEREAS, The March of Dimes found that while public awareness | 20 |
| is improving and eighty-four per cent of women have heard of folic | 21 |
| acid, only thirty-nine per cent take a daily vitamin containing | 22 |
| folate, only twenty per cent know that folic acid prevents birth | 23 |
| defects, and only eleven per cent know it should be taken before | 24 |
| pregnancy; and | 25 |
| WHEREAS, The March of Dimes found that health professionals | 26 |
| have not been the main source of women's information and awareness | 27 |
| about folic acid since forty-nine per cent of the women who | 28 |
| learned about folic acid did so from the media as compared to | 29 |
| thirty-three per cent who learned about folic acid from their | 30 |
| physicians or other healthcare providers; now therefore be it | 31 |
| RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 129th General Assembly | 32 |
| of the State of Ohio, in adopting this resolution, express our | 33 |
| support of increasing public awareness of and education on the | 34 |
| importance of folic acid in the diets of women of childbearing age | 35 |
| to help prevent neural tube defects; and be it further | 36 |
| RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 129th General Assembly | 37 |
| of the State of Ohio, suggest that the Ohio Department of Health, | 38 |
| State Medical Board of Ohio, Ohio Board of Nursing, Ohio State | 39 |
| Board of Pharmacy, and the Ohio Department of Insurance | 40 |
| collaborate when engaging in any effort to increase public | 41 |
| awareness of and education on the importance of folic acid. | 42 |
