CHAPTER 218
HJR 20 - FINAL VERSION
2000 SESSION
01/09
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 20
A RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to fully fund the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act for HIV victims.
SPONSORS: Rep. Konys, Hills 33; Rep. Buckley, Hills 44; Rep. Pilliod, Belk 3; Rep. Lozeau, Hills 30; Rep. Clegg, Hills 23; Sen. Pignatelli, Dist 13; Sen. Trombly, Dist 7; Sen. Squires, Dist 12; Sen. Brown, Dist 17
This house joint resolution urges the United States Congress to fully fund the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 for persons who contracted the human immunodeficiency virus due to contaminated blood products.
00-2148
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
A RESOLUTION 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", of 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 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 and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
That the New Hampshire general court 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 1999 so that there is no delay between the authorization and timely appropriation of this relief; and
That copies of this resolution signed by the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate be forwarded by the house clerk 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 New Hampshire congressional delegation.
Approved June 1, 2000