By:  Lucio                                       S.R. No. 167
    1-1                           SENATE RESOLUTION
    1-2        WHEREAS, The Texas Department of Health has a duty to
    1-3  the citizens and taxpayers of this state to do everything in its
    1-4  power to ensure that its many responsibilities are carried out as
    1-5  efficiently as possible with available resources, and much can be
    1-6  achieved toward this goal by the department's forming a partnership
    1-7  with the private sector to better serve the public; and
    1-8        WHEREAS, Because of a recently documented increase
    1-9  in neural tube birth defects in the Rio Grande Valley, the
   1-10  Texas Department of Health recommends that all women of
   1-11  childbearing age in Cameron and Hidalgo counties supplement
   1-12  their diets with folic acid, a B vitamin, which studies show
   1-13  may reduce the incidence of such defects; and
   1-14        WHEREAS, Abbott Laboratories contributed $5,000 to help
   1-15  with the cost of a Texas Department of Health media campaign to
   1-16  educate the public about folic acid, first in the Rio Grande Valley
   1-17  and then in other parts of the state; and
   1-18        WHEREAS, The success of this project will help reduce the
   1-19  risk of neural tube defects in the state; now, therefore, be it
   1-20        RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas,
   1-21  73rd Legislature, hereby commend Abbott Laboratories for its
   1-22  outstanding work on behalf of the health and welfare of the
   1-23  people of Texas; and, be it further
    2-1        RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared
    2-2  for Abbott Laboratories as an expression of the appreciation of
    2-3  the Texas Senate.
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    2-5                                        President of the Senate
    2-6                                      I hereby certify that the
    2-7                                 above Resolution was adopted by
    2-8                                 the Senate on February 8, 1993.
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   2-10                                        Secretary of the Senate
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   2-12                                         Member, Texas Senate