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HR 199

A Resolution recognizing the month of October 2025 as "Breast Cancer Awareness Month" and October 17, 2025, as "National Mammography Day" in Pennsylvania.

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Lisa Borowski and 27 co-sponsors

Declares October 2025 Health Literacy Month in Michigan to raise awareness and push health-literacy training, plain-language materials, and accessible care across providers.

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Bill Summary · HR 199

Summary — HR 199 (House Resolution 199)

Title: A resolution to declare October 2025 as Health Literacy Month in the state of Michigan
Status: Adopted (enrolled and transmitted)
Introduced: January 3, 2025
Classification: House resolution (ceremonial/non‑binding)

Purpose

HR 199 formally designates October 2025 as Health Literacy Month in Michigan and calls attention to the importance of health literacy for improving health outcomes, reducing costs, and strengthening patient–provider communication.

Key provisions

  • Declares October 2025 as Health Literacy Month in the state of Michigan.
  • Summarizes and endorses key definitions and national guidance:
    • Personal Health Literacy — ability of individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to make health-related decisions.
    • Organizational Health Literacy — how well organizations enable people to find, understand, and use health information and services.
  • Cites national evidence and concerns, including:
    • American Medical Association view that limited health literacy is a strong predictor of poor health outcomes.
    • CDC estimate that 9 in 10 Americans have limited health literacy.
    • Estimated national costs of limited health literacy of $106–$238 billion per year (7–17% of personal health expenditures).
    • Association of limited health literacy with worse health status, lower preventive care use, higher hospital/ED use, medication mismanagement, and shorter life expectancy.
  • Notes that health literacy training and plain‑language practices are not yet consistently included in health professional education programs across Michigan.
  • Encourages raising awareness and promoting organizational practices that produce understandable, accessible, and actionable health communication.

Who is affected

  • Primarily symbolic — aimed at Michigan residents, health systems, providers, health professional schools, public health organizations, and state agencies.
  • Intends to influence educational institutions, health-care organizations, and policymakers to prioritize health literacy efforts (training, plain‑language materials, organizational changes).

Procedural / timeline highlights

  • Introduced in the House on January 3, 2025; referred to committees and placed on calendars in February–March 2025.
  • Adopted by the House (reported enrolled) March 6, 2025; subsequent committee and enrollment actions listed through April–May 2025, with enrollment signed by the Speaker and presented to the Secretary of State in May 2025.
  • Final wording and adoption recorded in April–May 2025 (resolution adopted in final form).

Sponsors and related measures

  • Sponsors (as listed): Claudia Tenney; Demetrius Douglas; Robert Flournoy; El‑Mahdi Holly; Mary Ann Santos; Noelle Kahaian; and several others.
  • Related bill: HCR 207 (companion).

Impact and limitations

  • Impact: Primarily awareness‑raising and advocacy; may spur state agencies, schools, and health systems to adopt training, plain‑language materials, and organizational health‑literacy practices.
  • Limitations: As a resolution, HR 199 is non‑binding and makes no statutory changes, does not appropriate funds, nor imposes new legal requirements. Any concrete policy, curriculum, or funding changes would require separate legislative or administrative action.

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

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