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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SCR 65
Author: Liu (D)
Amended: 8/6/12
Vote: 21
SENATE FLOOR : 35-0, 6/21/12
AYES: Alquist, Anderson, Berryhill, Calderon, Cannella,
Corbett, Correa, DeSaulnier, Dutton, Emmerson, Evans,
Fuller, Gaines, Hancock, Harman, Hernandez, Huff, Kehoe,
La Malfa, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod,
Pavley, Price, Rubio, Simitian, Steinberg, Vargas,
Walters, Wolk, Wright, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Blakeslee, De León, Padilla, Runner,
Strickland
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 8/9/12 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Pain Awareness Month and Women In Pain
Awareness Day
SOURCE : For Grace (A Project of Community Partners)
DIGEST : This resolution recognizes September 2012 as
Pain Awareness Month and calls upon all Californians to
observe that month by learning how to improve the quality
of life of Californians suffering from pain, and also
recognizes September 14, 2012, as Women In Pain Awareness
Day to draw public attention to gender disparity in pain
assessment and treatment in the United States.
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Assembly Amendments are clarifying.
ANALYSIS : This resolution makes the following
legislative findings:
1.Approximately more than 100 million Americans live with
chronic pain caused by various diseases or disorders,
and, each year, nearly 25 million Americans suffer with
acute pain.
2.Though medical knowledge and technology exist to relieve
or greatly ease pain, most pain is untreated,
undertreated, or improperly treated, and many health care
professionals are still unaware of how to effectively
treat pain.
3.People who suffer from chronic pain often are stigmatized
and marginalized and often are not informed about the
right to effective pain assessment and management, and
most people with pain, including those at the end of
life, get little or no relief.
4.Women have a higher prevalence than men of chronic pain
syndromes and diseases associated with chronic pain, such
as fibromyalgia, complex pain syndrome, or
osteoarthritis, and women respond differently to certain
analgesics.
5.Women's pain reports are taken less seriously than those
of men and women receive less aggressive treatment than
men for their pain.
6.Women have developed a number of coping mechanisms to
deal with pain, and this may contribute to a general
perception that they can endure more pain and that their
pain does not need to be taken as seriously.
7.Women more frequently report pain to a health care
provider, but are more likely to have their pain reports
discounted as emotional or psychogenic and, therefore,
not real.
8.The California-based Partners for Understanding Pain is a
growing coalition of pain sufferers, physicians, nurses,
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social workers, pharmacists, therapists, civic leaders,
nonprofit organizations, and health care businesses whose
mission is to improve the quality of life for people in
California experiencing pain.
9.It is the collective mission of this movement to provide
practical information for people with pain, inform health
care professionals about pain management, and serve as an
advocate for people experiencing pain.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/9/12)
For Grace (A Project of Community Partners) (source)
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 08/09/12
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos,
Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson,
Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani,
Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Gorell,
Grove, Hagman, Halderman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hill,
Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lara, Logue,
Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, Miller, Mitchell,
Monning, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Pan,
Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio,
Swanson, Torres, Valadao, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams,
Yamada, John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Roger Hernández, Hueso, Portantino
CTW:n 8/10/12 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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