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                                    THIRD READING


          Bill No:  AJR 28
          Author:   Brown (D), et al.
          Amended:  8/19/13 in Assembly
          Vote:     21

           
           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  Read and adopted, 8/19/13


           SUBJECT  :    Sickle Cell Anemia Awareness Month

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This resolution 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.

           ANALYSIS  :    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 1 in  
             every 36,000 Latino births are affected.

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          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 million; of which 65% 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.

          This resolution 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.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Fiscal Com.:  No




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