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| 5 | 5 | | 2023 -- H 5405 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LC001261 |
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| 9 | 9 | | S TATE OF RHODE IS LAND |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023 |
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| 12 | 12 | | ____________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N |
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| 15 | 15 | | MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $200,000 TO THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF |
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| 16 | 16 | | RHODE ISLAND (BIARI) |
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| 17 | 17 | | Introduced By: Representatives Kazarian, Fogarty, Dawson, and Donovan |
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| 18 | 18 | | Date Introduced: February 03, 2023 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Referred To: House Finance |
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| 22 | 22 | | WHEREAS, The Brain Injury Association of Rhode Island (BIARI) is a nonprofit 1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | organization founded in 1983; and 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | WHEREAS, Each year, 1.6 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury; and 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | WHEREAS, The BIARI mission is to help prevent brain injury and “offers programs and 4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | services to increase public awareness of brain injury, provide information, resource materials and 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | education, enhance the effectiveness of agencies and service providers, and support survivors and 6 |
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| 28 | 28 | | caregivers”; now, therefore be it 7 |
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| 29 | 29 | | RESOLVED, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not 8 |
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| 30 | 30 | | otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year 2023-2024, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars 9 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ($200,000) to the Brain Injury Association of Rhode Island to assist efforts to prevent brain injury 10 |
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| 32 | 32 | | and increase public awareness of brain injury; and the state controller is hereby authorized and 11 |
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| 33 | 33 | | directed to draw his orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of said sum, upon receipt 12 |
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| 34 | 34 | | of properly authenticated vouchers. 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | LC001261 |
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| 40 | 40 | | LC001261 - Page 2 of 2 |
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| 41 | 41 | | EXPLANATION |
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| 42 | 42 | | BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |
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| 43 | 43 | | OF |
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| 44 | 44 | | J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N |
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| 45 | 45 | | MAKING AN APPROPRIAT ION OF $200,000 TO THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF |
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| 46 | 46 | | RHODE ISLAND (BIARI) |
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| 47 | 47 | | *** |
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| 48 | 48 | | This joint resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of $200,000 to the 1 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Brian Injury Association of Rhode Island (BIARI). 2 |
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| 51 | 51 | | LC001261 |
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