[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 20 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 20

 Expressing the need for enhanced public awareness of traumatic brain 
   injury and support for the designation of a National Brain Injury 
                            Awareness Month.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 17, 2005

 Mr. Cochran (for himself and Mr. Lautenberg) submitted the following 
 concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the need for enhanced public awareness of traumatic brain 
   injury and support for the designation of a National Brain Injury 
                            Awareness Month.

Whereas traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability among 
        children and young adults in the United States;
Whereas at least 1,400,000 people in the United States sustain a traumatic brain 
        injury each year;
Whereas each year, more than 80,000 people in the United States sustain 
        permanent life-long disabilities from a traumatic brain injury, that can 
        include the serious physical, cognitive, and emotional impairments;
Whereas every 21 seconds, a person in the United States sustains a traumatic 
        brain injury;
Whereas at least 5,300,000 people in the United States currently live with 
        permanent disabilities resulting from a traumatic brain injury;
Whereas most cases of traumatic brain injury are preventable;
Whereas traumatic brain injuries cost the Nation $56,300,000,000 annually;
Whereas the lack of public awareness is so vast that traumatic brain injury is 
        known in the disability community as the Nation's ``silent epidemic'';
Whereas the designation of a National Brain Injury Awareness Month will work 
        toward enhancing public awareness of traumatic brain injury; and
Whereas the Brain Injury Association of America has recognized March as Brain 
        Injury Awareness Month: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That Congress--
            (1) recognizes the life-altering impact traumatic brain 
        injury may have both on people living with the resultant 
        disabilities and on their families;
            (2) recognizes the need for enhanced public awareness of 
        traumatic brain injury;
            (3) supports the designation of an appropriate month as 
        National Brain Injury Awareness Month; and
            (4) encourages the people of the United States to observe 
        National Brain Injury Awareness Month with appropriate programs 
        and activities.
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