BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: August 29, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Nancy Skinner, Chair
SCR 74 (Gaines) - As Amended: March 27, 2012
SENATE VOTE : 38-0
SUBJECT : Brain Injury Awareness Month.
SUMMARY : Designates March 2012 as Brain Injury Awareness
Month, and applauds the Brain Injury Association of California
for its contributions toward educating Californians on matters
pertaining to traumatic brain injury. Specifically, this
resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1)Each year, an estimated 1.7 million Americans sustain a
traumatic brain injury resulting from motor vehicle crashes,
falls, assaults, sporting-related injuries, or occupational
injuries with a third of these injuries leading to death.
2)The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
estimates that as many as 3.8 million sports and recreation
related concussions occur in the United States annually; and,
in California nearly 200,000 people are treated and released
from emergency departments and over 30,000 more are
hospitalized with a primary or secondary diagnosis of nonfatal
brain injury.
3)The likelihood of suffering a concussion while playing a
contact sport is estimated to be as high as 19 percent per
year of playing, and happens to all age groups and genders.
Football has a 75 percent chance of concussion in males and
soccer has a 50 percent chance of concussion in females.
4)The Brain Injury Association of California offers education
and support to families and individuals with traumatic brain
injury to help them live as independently as possible though
community integration and strives to promote public awareness
on the extent, causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention
of traumatic brain injury.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
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Support
Brain Injury Association of California
Association of Regional Center Agencies
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800