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ND SCR4024
Concurrent Resolution
Status
Engrossed
2/24/2011
Primary Sponsor
Robert Kilichowski
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AI Summary
- Directs the Legislative Management to study issues relating to sodium intake and legislative measures aimed at decreasing heart disease and stroke
- Requires reporting of findings and recommendations, including any necessary legislation, to the Sixty-third Legislative Assembly
- Establishes context that one in three American adults has high blood pressure and Americans age 20 and older consume an average of 3,466 milligrams of sodium per day, exceeding the American Heart Association's recommended limit of less than 1,500 milligrams per day
- Notes that heart disease and stroke are the first and sixth leading causes of death in North Dakota and that the State Department of Health has joined the National Salt Reduction Initiative to reduce population salt intake by at least 20 percent over five years
- Identifies that the state's heart disease and stroke prevention program is taking inventory of state policies and programs impacting sodium intake, including procurement policies for food in state aging service agencies, prisons, hospitals, and schools
Legislative Description
A concurrent resolution directing the Legislative Management to study issues relating to sodium intake and legislative measures aimed at decreasing heart disease and stroke.
Last Action
Second reading, failed to adopt yeas 16 nays 75
3/18/2011
Committee Referrals
Health and Human Services2/14/2011
Full Bill Text
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