BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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SENATE THIRD READING
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122 (Beall)
As Introduced March 28, 2016
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE: 38-0
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|Committee |Votes|Ayes |Noes |
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|Rules |9-0 |Gordon, Brough, | |
| | |Cooley, Gomez, | |
| | |Holden, Mullin, | |
| | |Quirk, Rodriguez, | |
| | |Waldron | |
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SUMMARY: Designates the month of April 2016 as Autism Awareness
Month and encourages residents to show support for autism
awareness by lighting their homes, businesses, schools, and
places of worship with blue light bulbs. Specifically, this
resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1)Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder affecting the
social, communication, and behavioral skills of those affected
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by it.
2)More children are being diagnosed on the autism spectrum than
ever before with diagnoses as high as one in 68 children
nationally, and one in 42 boys.
3)There is no cure for autism, but early treatment makes it
often possible for those individuals to lead significantly
improved lives.
4)Individuals with autism often require a lifetime of
specialized and community support services to ensure their
health and safety, and to support families' resilience in
managing the psychological and financial burdens autism
presents.
5)Autism Speaks and autism services providers throughout the
state are organizing the Light It Up Blue campaign and Autism
Awareness Day in order to educate parents, professionals, and
the general public about autism and its impact, and to shine a
light on autism as a growing public health crisis.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
Analysis Prepared by:
Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 FN:
0002785
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