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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.1312 Type of Legislation:Concurrent Resolution CR Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:20000405 Primary Sponsor:Moore All Sponsors:Moore Drafted Document Number:l:\s-res\tlm\005hemo.kad.doc Residing Body:House Current Committee:Invitations and Memorial Resolutions Committee 24 HIMR Subject:Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act for HIV victims, Congress requests to fund; Medical, Federal Government History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 20000406 Introduced, referred to Committee 24 HIMR Senate 20000405 Introduced, adopted, sent to House Versions of This Bill
URGING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO FULLY FUND THE RICKY RAY HEMOPHILIA RELIEF FUND ACT FOR HIV VICTIMS.
Whereas, Congress passed the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998; and
Whereas, the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act was passed to provide for compassionate payments to individuals with blood-clotting disorders, such as hemophilia, who contracted the human immunodeficiency virus due to contaminated blood products; and
Whereas, in its review of the events surrounding the HIV infection of thousands of people with blood-clotting disorders, such as hemophilia, a 1995 study entitled "HIV and the Blood Supply", by the Institute of Medicine, found a failure of leadership and an inadequate institutional decision-making process in the system responsible for ensuring blood safety, concluding that a failure of leadership led to less than effective donor screening, weak regulatory actions and insufficient communication to patients about the risk of AIDS; and
Whereas, this legislation, named after Ricky Ray, a teen-age hemophiliac who died from AIDS, was enacted to provide financial relief to the families of hemophiliacs who were devastated by the federal government's policy failure in its handling of the AIDS epidemic; and
Whereas, now that the relief bill has been signed into law by the President, Congress has been reticent to fund it. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring:
That the South Carolina General Assembly hereby urges Congress to fully fund the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund, enacted into law under the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998, in 2000 so that there is no further delay between the authorization and timely appropriation of this relief.
Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate, the President of the United States, and to each member of the South Carolina congressional delegation.
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