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          Date of Hearing:   March 8, 2012

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
               ACR 113 (Dickinson) - As Introduced:  February 22, 2012
           
          SUBJECT  :   Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.

           SUMMARY  :   Concurs that March 12, 2012, through March 16, 2012, 
          is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week and that Californians 
          should be encouraged to join together in raising awareness and 
          heightening public knowledge of this debilitating disease.  
          Specifically,  this resolution  makes the following legislative 
          findings:

          1)Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease of the central 
            nervous system that affects an estimated 400,000 Americans 
            across the country, and nearly 200 new cases are diagnosed 
            each week nationwide.

          2)Twice as many women as men have multiple sclerosis with most 
            people being diagnosed 20 and 50 years of age; and the 
            California chapters of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society 
            report that more than 40,000 people in California are affected 
            by this devastating disease.

          3)The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is the largest private 
            supporter of multiple sclerosis research in the world; and, 
            for more than 55 years, it has funded innovative research and 
            advocated for government support of important scientific 
            inquiries while providing services to more than one million 
            people annually through its home office in New York and its 
            50-state network of chapters.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file.

          Opposition 
           
          None on file.








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