Bill Text: TX HB2986 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to designating May 17 as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Day.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [HB2986 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2986-Introduced.html
| 85R11727 JG-D | ||
| By: Gonzales of Williamson | H.B. No. 2986 | |
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| relating to designating May 17 as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma | ||
| Awareness Day. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 662.065 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.065. DIFFUSE INTRINSIC PONTINE GLIOMA AWARENESS | ||
| DAY. (a) May 17 is Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Day | ||
| to raise awareness about the prevalence and deadliness of diffuse | ||
| intrinsic pontine glioma, a pediatric brain tumor. | ||
| (b) Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Awareness Day shall be | ||
| regularly observed by appropriate programs and activities. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
