2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
LRB-3060/1
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May 20, 2025 - Introduced by Senators Smith, Carpenter, Drake, Hesselbein, Jacque, Larson, Ratcliff, Roys, Spreitzer and Wall, cosponsored by Representatives Subeck, Bare, Clancy, Emerson, Goodwin, Kirsch, McCarville, Ortiz-Velez, Phelps, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stroud, Stubbs, Tenorio, Haywood and Miresse. Referred to Committee on Senate Organization.
SJR54,1,2
1Relating to: designating May 2025 and May 2026 as Food Allergy Awareness
2Months. SJR54,1,43Whereas, more than 33 million Americans have food allergies, and nearly six 4million of whom are children under the age of 18; and SJR54,1,65Whereas, research shows that the prevalence of food allergy is increasing 6among children and adults; and SJR54,1,107Whereas, nine foods cause most of all food allergy reactions in the United 8States—shellfish, fish, milk, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, soy, wheat, and sesame—and 9food allergy reactions can range from mild symptoms to severe reactions, such as 10anaphylaxis; and SJR54,1,1211Whereas, anaphylaxis is a serious allergic reaction that is rapid in onset and 12may cause death; and SJR54,2,213Whereas, every 10 seconds, food allergy sends an individual to the emergency
1room—reactions typically occur when an individual unknowingly eats a food 2containing an ingredient to which they are allergic; and SJR54,2,43Whereas, emergency medical treatment for severe allergic reactions to food 4has increased by 377 percent in only a decade; and SJR54,2,55Whereas, childhood food allergies cost U.S. families $34 billion each year; and SJR54,2,96Whereas, the Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) organization is a 7national, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life and the 8health of individuals with food allergies and to providing individuals hope through 9the promise of new treatments; now, therefore, be it SJR54,2,1210Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That May 2025 and 11May 2026 are hereby designated as Food Allergy Awareness Months in Wisconsin to 12increase understanding and awareness of food allergies and anaphylaxis.
