BILL NUMBER: SCR 24	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   126
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 21, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 2, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   APRIL 15, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator O'Connell

                        MARCH 2, 1999

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 24--Relative to National Lymphoma
Awareness Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 24, O'Connell.  National Lymphoma Awareness Week.
   This measure would designate the second week of October as
National Lymphoma Awareness Week and recognize the work of the
Lymphoma Research Foundation of America.




   WHEREAS, Lymphoma is one of the most rapidly increasing cancers in
the United States; and
   WHEREAS, More than 600,000 Americans are currently battling
lymphoma; and
   WHEREAS, Lymphoma is the fourth largest killer of men and the
fifth largest killer of women in the 25-to-65-year-old age group in
the United States; and
   WHEREAS, On October 16, 1995, Katie Bulen of Paso Robles
tragically lost her life at the age of eight years to this deadly
disease; and
   WHEREAS, Cindy Bulen, mother of Katie, is a volunteer Public
Awareness Coordinator for the Lymphoma Research Foundation of
America; and
   WHEREAS, The Lymphoma Research Foundation of America was
established in 1991 after its president and founder, Ellen Glesby
Cohen, was diagnosed with incurable non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; and
   WHEREAS, In just five years, the foundation has given close to $1
million to fund 32 research grants at cancer centers and universities
across the country and has become the foremost lymphoma resource in
the United States; and
   WHEREAS, Ninety-two percent of money raised by the foundation goes
directly to research and is used to support the foundation's
programs, which include free support groups for patients and their
families, a telephone helpline and buddy system, a quarterly
newsletter, and an Internet web site containing the most up-to-date
information on treatments, therapies, and research; now, therefore,
be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the second week of October shall hereafter
be designated National Lymphoma Awareness Week, and that the
important work of the Lymphoma Research Foundation of America toward
finding a cure to this devastating disease be recognized.