Bill Text: TX SR720 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Recognizing May 2023 as ALS Awareness month.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-28 - Reported enrolled [SR720 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR720-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Recognizing May 2023 as ALS Awareness month.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-28 - Reported enrolled [SR720 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SR720-Introduced.html
88R33402 KSM-D | ||
By: Menéndez | S.R. No. 720 |
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WHEREAS, The observance of ALS Awareness Month in May 2023 | ||
provides an opportunity to promote better understanding of | ||
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; and | ||
WHEREAS, A neurodegenerative condition, ALS was first | ||
identified by a French scientist in 1869, and the disease garnered | ||
international attention 70 years later, when it ended the career of | ||
beloved baseball player Lou Gehrig; often known as Lou Gehrig's | ||
disease, it is characterized by degeneration of cell bodies of the | ||
upper and lower motor neurons in the gray matter of the anterior | ||
horn of the spinal cord; and | ||
WHEREAS, Approximately 5,600 people in the United States are | ||
diagnosed with ALS each year, and some 15 Americans are diagnosed | ||
each day; in Texas, the ALS Association assisted more than 1,500 | ||
individuals during 2022, estimated at 41 percent of the state's ALS | ||
population; in addition, it benefited over 4,500 family caregivers | ||
and young relatives with its support groups and educational | ||
workshops; the association fights daily for people living with ALS, | ||
advocating for them, empowering them, and leading cutting-edge | ||
research to discover treatments and a cure; since 2020, it has | ||
loaned more than $6 million of medical equipment to Texans at no | ||
cost; it supports 13 multidisciplinary clinics across the state | ||
offering a variety of resources; and | ||
WHEREAS, During ALS Awareness Month 2023, the ALS Association | ||
is celebrating the commencement of construction on the $100 million | ||
Center for Brain Health at The University of Texas Health Science | ||
Center at San Antonio; the center will provide innovative, expert | ||
care of patients with ALS and other neurologic conditions and help | ||
advance research as a clinical trials facility; UT Health | ||
San Antonio's Neuromuscular Disorders Program is already an ALS | ||
Association-Certified Treatment Center of Excellence, and it is | ||
home to one of only 38 Muscular Dystrophy Association/ALS Research | ||
Centers in the country; and | ||
WHEREAS, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a serious and | ||
life-threatening disease, and the observance of ALS Awareness Month | ||
reaffirms our commitment to search for a cure and to enhance quality | ||
of life for patients; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the Senate of the 88th Texas Legislature | ||
hereby recognize May 2023 as ALS Awareness Month. |