BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: March 23, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Richard Gordon, Chair
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(Cooley) - As Introduced March 18, 2015
(As Proposed to Be Amended)
SUBJECT: Brain Injury Awareness, Treatment, and Prevention
Month.
SUMMARY: Designates the month of March 2015 and each year
thereafter as Brain Injury Awareness, Treatment, and Prevention
Month. Specifically, this resolution makes the following
legislative findings:
1)Each year 2.5 million Americans sustain traumatic brain
injuries and 250,000 of those sustaining these injuries live
in California.
2)Traumatic brain injury is a contributing factor in roughly
one-third of all injury-related deaths in the United States
which are largely the result of falls, motor vehicle crashes,
assaults, sporting-related injuries, or occupational injuries.
3)It is estimated that more than 5.3 million Americans are
living with disabilities related to traumatic brain injury.
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Traumatic brain injury is the signature injury of the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, presenting new challenges for members of
the military and their family.
4)The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
estimates that as many as 3.8 million sports and
recreation-related concussions occur in the United States
annually. The Federal Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization
Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-196) has provided new authority
for the CDC to review brain injury management in children, and
to identify ongoing and potential opportunities for research.
5)The Brain Injury Association of California offers education
and support to individuals with traumatic brain injury and
their families to help those individuals integrate into the
community and live as independently as possible.
AS PROPOSED TO BE AMENDED: The author is proposing the
following:
(1) Making a technical change on page 2, by striking out lines 6
to 9, inclusive and reinserting
them between lines 2 and 3.
(2) Significant national attention has been drawn to this issue
due to the prominence and
visibility of scholarship that has identified repeated
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concussions and brain injury as leading
to negative long-term health outcomes.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
Brain Injury Association of California (BIACAL)
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800
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