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114th Regular Session (2025-2026) Introduced by Antonio Parkinson

Michigan designates June 2-6, 2025 as Survival Flight Week to honor air-medical transport crews, recognize their lifesaving work, and memorialize six crew members lost in 2007.

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Bill Summary · HR 124

Summary — HR 124 (Michigan): “Survival Flight Week” (June 2–6, 2025)

Status: Adopted (House resolution)
Introduced by: Rep. Jennifer Conlin (offered in adopted version by Reps. Conlin, MacDonell, and Paiz)
Type: House Resolution (honorific/symbolic)
Effective: Declares week of June 2–6, 2025 as Survival Flight Week in Michigan

Purpose and intent

HR 124 is a non‑binding, honorary resolution that recognizes and celebrates the lifesaving work of Survival Flight — the air medical transport service that provides rapid transport of critically ill or injured patients, donor organs, and specialized lifesaving equipment (for example, ECMO systems) across Michigan. The resolution also memorializes the six Survival Flight personnel who died in a June 4, 2007 aircraft crash returning from an organ procurement mission.

Key provisions

  • Officially declares June 2–6, 2025 as “Survival Flight Week” in the State of Michigan.
  • Recognizes the critical role Survival Flight services play in statewide health care, often making the difference between life and death.
  • Memorializes the June 4, 2007 crash and honors the six individuals who lost their lives:
    • David Ashburn, M.D.
    • Richard Chenault II
    • Dennis Hoyes
    • Rick LaPensee
    • Bill Serra
    • Martin Spoor, M.D.
  • Expresses appreciation for Survival Flight personnel and their sacrifices on behalf of patients, organ donation and transplant communities, and public health.
  • Directs that copies of the resolution be transmitted to the families of those lost, the leadership of Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan Transplant Center as a token of appreciation.

Who is affected

  • Survival Flight crews and affiliated air‑medical and hospital teams (recognition and public acknowledgment).
  • Families of the 2007 crash victims (explicitly memorialized and to receive copies of the resolution).
  • Transplant and critical‑care communities in Michigan, including Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Transplant Center (recipients of the resolution).
  • General public (raises awareness of the role of air medical transport and organ transport in emergency and transplant care).

Procedural / timeline notes

  • The resolution was offered in the Michigan House and subsequently adopted by the House (legislative records show the resolution was placed on calendars and adopted; copies were to be transmitted to designated recipients).
  • As an honorary House resolution, HR 124 creates no legal mandates, regulatory changes, or budgetary effects.

Practical impact

  • Symbolic recognition and public commemoration: raises awareness of air medical transport services and honors past sacrifice.
  • May support community and institutional remembrance activities, outreach, and morale for emergency‑medical and transplant teams.
  • No direct change to law, funding, or operational policy.

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

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