Senate Bill sb2574

    Florida Senate - 2002        (NP)                      SR 2574

    By Senator Dawson





    30-1980-02

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing June 2002 as

  3         Scleroderma Awareness Month.

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  5         WHEREAS, the health of the residents in our communities

  6  is the foundation for a caring and productive society, and

  7         WHEREAS, our future depends, in great measure, upon our

  8  ability to find cures for and adequately treat individuals who

  9  are afflicted with a variety of illnesses, and

10         WHEREAS, hundreds of thousands of Americans are

11  afflicted with scleroderma, a disfiguring and debilitating

12  connective-tissue disorder that affects the vascular and

13  immune systems, resulting in a hardening of the skin and

14  organs, and

15         WHEREAS, this painful condition can strike at any age,

16  regardless of gender or ethnicity, although women between the

17  ages of 25 and 55 are more likely to be afflicted than are

18  men, and

19         WHEREAS, the noble work of the Scleroderma Foundation

20  has provided us all with hope that some day this disease will

21  be eradicated and that the foundation's efforts to educate and

22  comfort those touched by scleroderma will be justly rewarded

23  with a cure, NOW, THEREFORE,

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25  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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27         That in order to provide an opportunity to educate the

28  public about this often life-threatening disease and the more

29  than 300,000 Americans who suffer from it, the Florida Senate

30  recognizes the month of June 2002 to be Scleroderma Awareness

31  Month.

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