( MENAFN - PR Newswire) The National Plan establishes a federal advisory council dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease . NEW YORK, May 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) today celebrates the passage of The National Plan to End Parkinson's Act (H.
R.2365/S.1064) in the U.
S. Senate. This is the first-ever federal legislation dedicated to ending Parkinson's.
The bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last December.
With passage in both the House and the Senate, the bill will be sent to President Biden's desk to be signed into law. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced passage of the legislation this afternoon from the floor of the Senate (video below). With bipartisan support and 215 total cosponsors in Congress, Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) served as the lead sponsors of the bill in the U.
S. Senate with Representatives Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Paul Tonko (D-NY) at the helm in the U.S.
House of Representatives. "When we started the Foundation, we could only dream of the breakthroughs the Parkinson's community has experienced over the last year, from the discovery of a biomarker to the federal government advancing a plan to end Parkinson's," says Michael J. Fox .
"Today, I'm endlessly thankful to everyone who has carried the load to get us here - advocates, scientists, patients, families, clinicians, caregivers and legislators, especially the bill's lead sponsors Se.
