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          Date of Hearing:   May 6, 2013

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
                 ACR 46 (Achadjian) - As Introduced:  April 15, 2013
           
          SUBJECT  :   Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day.

           SUMMARY  :   Proclaims May 19, 2013, as Viral Hepatitis Awareness  
          Day in California.  Specifically,  this resolution  makes the  
          following legislative findings:

          1)Hepatitis C is the most prevalent blood-borne disease in the  
            United States.

          2)Liver cancer and liver disease related to hepatitis B and C  
            are two of the leading killers in California; and the majority  
            of those Californians with hepatitis B and C infection do not  
            know they are infected, and are therefore at high risk of  
            severe liver disease, liver cancer, or liver failure.

          3)Hepatitis awareness education campaigns and accessible  
            screening for hepatitis B and C, along with appropriate  
            treatment, can reduce the damage from hepatitis B and C viral  
            infection to individuals and to our community, financially, as  
            well as physically and emotionally.

          4)The federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention released  
            updated guidelines calling for everyone born between 1945 and  
            1965 to receive a one-time hepatitis C test, which would save  
            over 100,000 lives.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file

           Opposition 
           
          None on file
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 








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