Bill Text: TX HB369 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to designating May 24 as Lung Cancer Awareness Day.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-01 - Effective immediately [HB369 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB369-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to designating May 24 as Lung Cancer Awareness Day.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-01 - Effective immediately [HB369 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB369-Comm_Sub.html
By: Villalba, Anchia (Senate Sponsor - Watson) | H.B. No. 369 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2015; | ||
May 6, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Administration; May 13, 2015, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 13, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to designating May 24 as Lung Cancer 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 662.061 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 662.061. LUNG CANCER AWARENESS DAY. (a) May 24 is Lung | ||
Cancer Awareness Day to encourage residents of this state to learn | ||
about: | ||
(1) the prevalence of lung cancer; | ||
(2) the statistical risks of developing the disease, | ||
including behaviors that increase the risk of developing the | ||
disease; | ||
(3) ways to increase early diagnosis and treatment of | ||
the disease; and | ||
(4) ways to reduce the prevalence of the disease. | ||
(b) Lung Cancer Awareness Day shall be regularly observed by | ||
appropriate programs and activities. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. | ||
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