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AR HR1035
Resolution
Status
3/25/2015
Primary Sponsor
Stephen Magie
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AI Summary
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Recognizes Betty Flanagan Bumpers, former First Lady and wife of former Governor and U.S. Senator Dale Bumpers, for her lifelong work promoting childhood immunization.
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Acknowledges her "Every Child by '74" campaign that immunized over 350,000 Arkansas children in one day, raising Arkansas from one of the lowest to one of the highest immunization rates in the nation.
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Credits her work launching the national "Every Child by Two" campaign in 1991 with former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, which achieved a 90% immunization rate for children under 2.
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Notes President Bill Clinton and Congress created the Betty and Dale Bumpers Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Medicine in 1999 in her honor.
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Encourages Arkansas families to consult healthcare professionals about childhood immunization benefits and directs the House Chief Clerk to present a copy of the resolution to Mrs. Bumpers.
Legislative Description
To Recognize Betty Flanagan Bumpers For Her Work To Promote Childhood Immunization; And To Encourage Arkansas Families To Consider Seriously The Importance Of Childhood Immunization.
Last Action
READ AND ADOPTED.
3/25/2015