HLS 15RS-1052 ORIGINAL
2015 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 133
BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHEXNAYDER
HEALTH/SPINAL CORD DYS: Urges and requests the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord
Injury Trust Fund Advisory Board to study and make recommendations for
providing services to persons with injuries arising from sudden internal medical
conditions
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2To urge and request the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory Board
3 to study and make recommendations for policy and procedural changes, including
4 necessary legislation, to expand its services to persons with spinal cord injuries
5 arising from sudden internal medical conditions not later than sixty days prior to the
6 beginning of the 2016 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
7 WHEREAS, R.S. 46:2631 et seq. provides for the development of a rehabilitation
8program for persons disabled by traumatic head and spinal cord injuries through the
9establishment of the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund to be funded by
10additional fees imposed on motor vehicle violations in this state for the offenses of driving
11under the influence, reckless operation, and speeding; and
12 WHEREAS, the purpose of the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund
13is to provide Louisiana citizens who survive traumatic head or spinal cord injuries a source
14of funds for services enabling them to return to a reasonable level of functioning and
15independent living in their communities; and
16 WHEREAS, spinal cord injury is defined, for the purposes of the trust fund, as an
17insult to the spinal cord, not of a degenerative or congenital nature, but caused by an external
18physical force resulting in paraplegia or quadriplegia; and
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1 WHEREAS, an injury to the spinal cord resulting in a change, either temporary or
2permanent, in the spinal cord's normal motor, sensory, or autonomic function may be the
3effect of an acute internal medical event such as a brainstem aneurysm; and
4 WHEREAS, individuals with spinal cord injuries caused by sudden internal medical
5conditions are also in need of services enabling them to return to a reasonable level of
6functioning and independent living in their communities; and
7 WHEREAS, current statutory authority establishing the Traumatic Head and Spinal
8Cord Injury Trust Fund precludes these individuals from receiving assistance through the
9trust fund; and
10 WHEREAS, policy and procedural changes, including legislation, will be necessary
11to provide essential services through the trust fund to individuals with spinal cord injuries
12caused by sudden internal medical conditions.
13 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
14urge and request the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory Board to
15study and determine the policy and procedural changes, including necessary legislation,
16required to expand its services to persons with spinal cord injuries arising from sudden
17internal medical conditions.
18 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury
19Trust Fund Advisory Board shall submit a written report of its findings and
20recommendations to the legislature not later than sixty days prior to the beginning of the
212016 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
22 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
23chairman of the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory Board.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HCR 133 Original 2015 Regular Session Schexnayder
Urges and requests the Traumatic Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund Advisory Board
to study and make recommendations for providing services to persons with spinal cord
injuries arising from sudden internal medical conditions.
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