Bill Text: PA HR639 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Observing the month of April 2012 as "Donate Life Month" in Pennsylvania.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 33-19)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-02 - Adopted (194-0) [HR639 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HR639-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3277
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 639 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY VULAKOVICH, BISHOP, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, DAVIS, DiGIROLAMO, EVERETT, FABRIZIO, FLECK, FREEMAN, GEIST, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GRELL, HARHART, HENNESSEY, HESS, HICKERNELL, KAUFFMAN, KORTZ, MAJOR, MANN, MARSHALL, McGEEHAN, MILLARD, MOUL, M. O'BRIEN, PICKETT, ROCK, ROSS, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SONNEY, STERN, SWANGER, VEREB, PETRARCA AND KILLION, MARCH 27, 2012
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, MARCH 27, 2012
A RESOLUTION
Observing the month of April 2012 as "Donate Life Month" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, As of March 20, 2012, more than 113,000 persons
nationwide are awaiting lifesaving organ transplants; and
WHEREAS, In 2011, a total of 14,144 donors enabled 28,535
transplants; and
WHEREAS, Donations of organs can be from living donors,
persons who have been declared brain dead and persons who have
died from cardiac arrest; and
WHEREAS, The month of April is set aside each year to promote
organ donation and to celebrate the lifesaving work of
transplant team medical professionals and researchers who have
made organ transplantation a safe medical procedure; therefore
be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives observe the month
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of April 2012 as "Donate Life Month" in Pennsylvania.
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