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                                                                  AJR 28
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          Date of Hearing:   August 8, 2013

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                              Richard S. Gordon, Chair
                    AJR 28 (Brown) - As Introduced:  July 3, 2013
           
          SUBJECT  :   Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month.

           SUMMARY  :   Recognizes the month of September 2013, and each  
          September thereafter, as Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month in  
          California, and urges Congress of the United States to support  
          the President's continuation of funding for sickle cell anemia  
          centers and research.  Specifically,  this resolution  makes the  
          following legislative findings:

          1)Sickle cell anemia and sickle cell disease refer to a group of  
            inherited disorders that affect red blood cells causing the  
            person's body to produce abnormally shaped red blood cells  
            that resemble a crescent or sickle of which do not last as  
            long as round blood cells, causing anemia.

          2)It is estimated that more than 90,000 Americans have sickle  
            cell anemia; one in every 500 African Americans and one in  
            every 36,000 Latino births are affected.

          3)Sickle cell anemia can be a life-threatening condition, and  
            access to comprehensive care can be limited by social,  
            economic, cultural, and geographic barriers; and the average  
            cost of hospitalization for sickle cell anemia in 2004 was  
            $6,223 and the total cost for 84,000 hospital admissions was  
            $488,000,000; of which 65 percent was covered by Medicaid  
            funds.

          4)In 1972, the Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act was signed into  
            law by President Richard Nixon after pledging that his  
            administration would "reverse the record of neglect on the  
            dreaded disease" by increasing funding for and expanding  
            sickle cell anemia-related programs, including the development  
            of comprehensive sickle cell anemia centers.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 








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          None on file.

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