House Bill 9015

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HR 9015

        By Representatives Greenstein and Jacobs






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution declaring June 1999 as Scleroderma

  3         Awareness Month.

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  5         WHEREAS, the health of the citizens 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 United Scleroderma

20  Foundation has provided us all with hope that someday this

21  disease will be eradicated, and that their efforts to educate

22  and comfort those touched by scleroderma will be justly

23  rewarded with a cure, NOW, THEREFORE,

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25  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

26  Florida:

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28         That in order to provide an opportunity to educate the

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

30  than 700,000 Americans who suffer from it, the Legislature of

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                HR 9015

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  1  the State of Florida does hereby proclaim the month of June

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