Bill Text: TX SR488 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognizing AADC (Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase) Deficiency Awareness Day.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-04-27 - Reported enrolled [SR488 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR488-Enrolled.html
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| WHEREAS, Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase (AADC) | ||
| Deficiency Awareness Day is being observed to focus attention on | ||
| this rare disease and to help educate the community, physicians, | ||
| and specialists about its symptoms to facilitate early | ||
| detection; and | ||
| WHEREAS, AADC Deficiency is a rare genetic neurological | ||
| disease, and there have been approximately 200 cases of AADC | ||
| Deficiency reported worldwide; and | ||
| WHEREAS, AADC Deficiency is a life-limiting, severely | ||
| debilitating condition that significantly impacts a patient's | ||
| development, motor skills, growth, cognition, and language | ||
| skills; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The disease results from an inherited genetic | ||
| mutation that causes patients to lack the AADC enzyme that is | ||
| required to create dopamine; without dopamine, patients can | ||
| never achieve motor milestones like holding their heads up, | ||
| sitting, and standing and are unable to develop the ability to | ||
| communicate or to meet the most basic of life's needs; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Patients with AADC Deficiency often have low | ||
| muscle tone that is unexplained and does not improve; such | ||
| patients also suffer from involuntary eye movements and | ||
| developmental delays; AADC Deficiency is often mistaken for | ||
| other diseases like cerebral palsy, epilepsy, or autism; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Patients are diagnosed with AADC Deficiency | ||
| through genetic and other biochemical tests; and | ||
| WHEREAS, AADC Deficiency Awareness Day serves as a vital | ||
| means of helping inform the public and the medical community | ||
| about the condition, and this awareness can help patients who may | ||
| be experiencing the symptoms of AADC to receive appropriate | ||
| treatment; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 88th | ||
| Legislature, hereby recognize AADC Deficiency Awareness Day and | ||
| encourage Texans to learn more about the disease. | ||
| Johnson | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| President of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that the | ||
| above Resolution was adopted by | ||
| the Senate on April 27, 2023. | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Member, Texas Senate | ||
