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SR 62

A Resolution recognizing the month of April 2025 as "Sexual Assault Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Dave Argall and 21 co-sponsors

California Senate proclaims November 2025 Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month and urges expanded early-detection research; symbolic, non-binding awareness effort.

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Bill Summary · SR 62

Summary — SR 62

Note on documents: The materials provided for "SR 62" contain multiple, different Senate resolutions from different states and on different subjects. The primary bill text included in the Floor Document and Version Content is a California Senate Resolution (authored by Senator Valladares) that proclaims November 2025 as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. This summary focuses on that resolution because it is the substantive text included. If you intended a different SR 62 (for example, a resolution to “confirm governor’s appointee for the board of veterans’ affairs”), please confirm the jurisdiction and provide the correct text; the materials here do not include that confirmation resolution.

Purpose / Intent

To recognize the seriousness of pancreatic cancer, call attention to the need for increased research and early detection, and officially designate November 2025 as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month in California. The resolution also urges increased effort to develop early detection and treatment tools and requests distribution of the resolution to interested parties.

Key provisions

  • Recognizes national pancreatic cancer statistics for 2025, including:
    • Estimated 67,440 new diagnoses and 51,980 deaths in the U.S. in 2025.
    • Five-year relative survival rate of approximately 13% overall.
    • Early-stage detection (surgically resectable) can raise five‑year survival to about 50%, but fewer than 20% are diagnosed at that stage.
    • For patients with distant metastasis (about 52% of cases), five‑year survival is about 3%.
  • Notes federal funding levels:
    • National Cancer Institute (NCI) 2022 budget nearly $7,000,000,000; $226,800,000 (≈3.3%) directed to pancreatic cancer research in 2022.
    • NCI appropriation in 2025 cited as $7,220,000,000.
  • Highlights the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN):
    • PanCAN investing $126,000,000 in research and clinical initiatives.
    • PanCAN received $15,000,000 from Congress in the 2025 fiscal package.
  • Resolves that the Senate:
    • Recognizes the shortfall in NCI funding for pancreatic cancer research and the need for aggressive measures to develop detection and treatment tools.
    • Proclaims November 2025 as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month in California and urges Californians to “wage hope to end pancreatic cancer.”
    • Directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit copies of the resolution to the author for distribution.

Who is affected

  • Primarily a ceremonial/action-oriented measure affecting:
    • California residents (awareness and outreach).
    • Patient advocacy groups and researchers (recognition and potential public attention).
    • Policymakers and federal officials indirectly (the resolution expresses concern over federal funding levels).
  • No regulatory, administrative, or appropriations effects on state programs are established by the resolution.

Procedural / timeline aspects

  • The resolution is non-binding and declaratory (a Senate resolution proclaiming an awareness month and urging action).
  • It proclaims November 2025 as Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
  • Status noted in the documents: filed with the Secretary of the Senate / Secretary of State; text indicates it will be transmitted to the author for distribution.
  • No appropriation or implementation timetable is included—this is an awareness/advocacy resolution rather than statutory change.

Impact

  • Symbolic and advocacy value: raises public and legislative attention to pancreatic cancer, potentially supporting advocacy for increased federal and private research funding and earlier detection efforts.
  • No direct legal, regulatory, or budgetary impact on state government programs as written.

If you want a summary of a different SR 62 (for example, the confirmation of a governor’s appointee to a veterans’ affairs board, or any other SR 62 appearing among the mixed materials), please specify the jurisdiction and provide that resolution’s text or indicate which of the included variants to summarize.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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