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Assembly Health Committee releases bill to fund cardiomyopathy education and school preparedness
Summary
The Assembly Health Committee voted to release AB 5043, which would appropriate $300,000 to the Department of Health to create and distribute cardiomyopathy education and school emergency-planning materials. A young witness with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy urged the panel to act, citing his own cardiac arrests.
Assembly Health Committee Chair Conaway on the committee’s final meeting in his chairmanship moved to release AB 5043, a bill that would require the Department of Health to create and disseminate materials and resources related to cardiomyopathy and appropriate $300,000 for those efforts.
Assemblywoman Simmons, the bill’s sponsor, introduced family members who testified in favor of the measure. "This is something that's very important to my…
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