Bill Text: OR HB3128 | 2013 | Regular Session | Enrolled

Oregon House Bill 3128 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-22 - Chapter 215, (2013 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2014. [HB3128 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB3128-Enrolled.html



     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

                            Enrolled

                         House Bill 3128

Sponsored by Representative REARDON; Representatives GOMBERG,
  GORSEK, KENY-GUYER, VEGA PEDERSON, Senators MONROE, THOMSEN (at
  the request of Charmayne Bischel)

                     CHAPTER ................

                             AN ACT

Relating to Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month.
  Whereas Multiple System Atrophy is a fatal neurological disease
diagnosed in approximately 15,000 patients in the United States;
and
  Whereas as many as 35,000 more patients in the United States
with Multiple System Atrophy are misdiagnosed with other more
recognizable neurodegenerative disorders; and
  Whereas patients with Multiple System Atrophy lose the ability
to walk, talk, chew, swallow and even breathe over the course of
a few years; and
  Whereas the incidence of Multiple System Atrophy in the United
States has increased in recent years; and
  Whereas no specific risk factors or causes of Multiple System
Atrophy have been identified; and
  Whereas there is currently no cure for Multiple System Atrophy;
and
  Whereas the lack of awareness about Multiple System Atrophy has
hindered research and the ability of researchers to obtain
funding for their work; and
  Whereas public support and greater awareness of the need for
research funding can aid in the discovery of the cause of and a
cure for Multiple System Atrophy; now, therefore,

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

  SECTION 1.  { + March of each year is designated as Multiple
System Atrophy Awareness Month to increase public awareness of
this progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects the
autonomic functions of the body. + }
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Passed by House April 4, 2013

    .............................................................
                             Ramona J. Line, Chief Clerk of House

    .............................................................
                                     Tina Kotek, Speaker of House

Passed by Senate May 13, 2013

    .............................................................
                              Peter Courtney, President of Senate

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Received by Governor:

......M.,............., 2013

Approved:

......M.,............., 2013

    .............................................................
                                         John Kitzhaber, Governor

Filed in Office of Secretary of State:

......M.,............., 2013

    .............................................................
                                   Kate Brown, Secretary of State

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