[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 198 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 198

  Recognizing Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury as the leading cause of 
death and disability in the United States for children and young adults 
 from birth until 25 years of age and endorsing the National Pediatric 
    Acquired Brain Injury Plan to develop a seamless, standardized, 
 evidence-based system of care universally accessible for all of these 
 children, young adults, and their families, regardless of where they 
                          live in the country.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 13, 2009

  Mr. Butterfield (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Massa, Mr. Moran of 
 Virginia, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Payne, Ms. Baldwin, 
Mr. Lance, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Loebsack, Mr. Carnahan, Mr. Michaud, Mr. Meek 
of Florida, Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Ms. 
  Roybal-Allard, Mr. Moore of Kansas, Mr. Rothman of New Jersey, Mr. 
 Pascrell, Ms. Herseth Sandlin, Mr. Holt, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Lincoln Diaz-
 Balart of Florida, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Walz, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. Brown of 
South Carolina, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Israel, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Murtha, 
    Mr. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, Mr. Salazar, Mr. Schrader, Mr. 
Courtney, Mr. Lynch, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Meeks of New York, Mr. Smith 
of New Jersey, Mr. Abercrombie, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Snyder, 
    Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Watt, Mr. Al Green of Texas, and Mr. 
   Cleaver) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Recognizing Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury as the leading cause of 
death and disability in the United States for children and young adults 
 from birth until 25 years of age and endorsing the National Pediatric 
    Acquired Brain Injury Plan to develop a seamless, standardized, 
 evidence-based system of care universally accessible for all of these 
 children, young adults, and their families, regardless of where they 
                          live in the country.

Whereas Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury (PABI) consists of traumatic causes 
        (PTBI) such as falls, motor and non-motor vehicle incidents, child 
        abuse, sports concussion, blast injury from war, gunshot wounds, and 
        being struck by an object and non-traumatic causes such as brain tumors, 
        strokes, epilepsy, substance abuse, infection, poisoning, hypoxia, 
        ischemia, pediatric AIDS, and meningitis;
Whereas The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that an 
        annual average of 12,535 deaths, 80,000 hospitalizations, and 643,000 
        emergency room visits are attributable to PTBI for children and young 
        adults from birth through age 25 and the Center for Injury Research and 
        Policy (CIRP) estimated more than $1,000,000,000 in total hospital 
        charges annually are attributable to PTBI up to age 17;
Whereas the World Health Organization (WHO) reports children are 20 times more 
        likely to die from PTBI than from asthma, 38 times more likely to die 
        than from cystic fibrosis, and there were twice as many children who 
        suffered a PTBI than those who received stitches in 2008;
Whereas The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation is one of the leading organizations in 
        the country dealing with PABI and is named after four-year-old Sarah 
        Jane Donohue who was shaken by her baby nurse when she was only five 
        days old, breaking four ribs, both collarbones, and causing a severe 
        brain injury;
Whereas The National Advisory Board of The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation, 
        comprised of the leading experts in the country dealing with PABIs, 
        developed the first-ever PABI Plan to create a seamless, standardized, 
        evidence-based system of care, universally accessible for all PABI 
        children, young adults, and their families regardless of where they live 
        in the Nation;
Whereas the PABI Plan called for the identification of one State Lead Center of 
        Excellence for each of the 50 States in addition to the District of 
        Columbia and Puerto Rico to implement the PABI Plan in their respective 
        State and/or territory and The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation has selected 
        these leading institutions and organizations;
Whereas the PABI Plan organizes the country into seven regions with seven or 
        eight States and/or territories in each region, including the Northeast, 
        Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Mid-central, South-central, Rocky Mountain, and 
        the Pacific; and
Whereas the PABI Plan identifies seven Categories of Care for specialization 
        within the PABI continuum of care which include prevention, acute care, 
        reintegration, adult transition, mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), 
        rural and tele-health, and the Virtual Sarah Jane Brain Family Center: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That Congress--
            (1) recognizes that Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury (PABI) 
        is the leading cause of death and disability in the United 
        States for children and young adults from birth up to 25 years 
        of age;
            (2) endorses the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury 
        Plan as the method to prevent future PABIs and treat all 
        children and young adults suffering from a PABI while 
        supporting their families; and
            (3) encourages all Federal, State, and local governments to 
        implement the PABI Plan.
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