US Congress Senate Resolution 490 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: Introduced on June 12 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-11-15 - Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S6870-6871)
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Designates the week of September 16, 2012, as Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week. Reaffirms the importance of an enhanced and coordinated research effort aimed at improving the understanding of primary mitochondrial diseases and the development of treatments and cures. Commends the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for its efforts to organize a symposium to improve the understanding of mitochondrial diseases and to enhance collaboration and chart a course for future mitochondrial disease research. Encourages NIH to place a greater priority on research into primary mitochondrial diseases, to continue to explore the connections between mitochondrial dysfunction and other systemic diseases, to promote collaboration and coordination among the Institutes of NIH and with other organizations, and to consider the recommendations and address research directions identified in the white paper developed from the symposium.

A resolution designating the week of September 16, 2012, as "Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week", reaffirming the importance of an enhanced and coordinated research effort on mitochondrial diseases, and commending the National Institutes of Health for its efforts to improve the understanding of mitochondrial diseases.

Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. John Kerry [D-MA]
Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I-CT]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Jim Webb [D-VA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-11-15	Senate	Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S6870-6871)
2012-11-15	Senate	Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6870-6871)
2012-06-12	Senate	Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3982-3983)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-resolution/490/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/sres490/BILLS-112sres490is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/sres490/BILLS-112sres490ats.pdf