IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1049 
Expressing the need for enhanced public awareness of traumatic brain injury 
and support for the designation of a National Brain Injury Awareness Month. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 1, 2024 
Mr. PASCRELL (for himself and Mr. BACON) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the need for enhanced public awareness of trau-
matic brain injury and support for the designation of 
a National Brain Injury Awareness Month. 
Whereas traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when brain 
function is altered by an external force, such as when 
something strikes the head or when the head hits some-
thing as the result of a fall, motor vehicle accident, as-
sault, or other event; 
Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC) has reported that 2,500,000 people sustain a 
nonfatal TBI each year; 
Whereas the CDC estimated that 5,300,000 Americans are 
living with long-term disabilities as a result of brain in-
jury and millions more are suffering from the residual ef-
fects of less severe TBIs; 
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•HRES 1049 IH 
Whereas CDC data suggests that TBIs accounted for ap-
proximately 214,110 hospitalizations annually in 2021; 
Whereas the CDC found that there were 69,473 TBI-related 
deaths in 2021, meaning about 190 Americans died from 
TBI-related injury each day; 
Whereas traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been called a ‘‘sig-
nature injury’’ of Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts; 
Whereas the Department of Defense reported that between 
the years 2000 and 2017, 375,000 military members 
were diagnosed with a TBI; 
Whereas the Institute of Medicine concluded that military 
servicemembers are at increased risk of long-term health 
issues from TBIs including depression, Alzheimer’s-like 
symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder, seizures, and 
problems with social functioning; 
Whereas the effects of a TBI diagnosis of our men and 
women in uniform is difficult because these injuries are 
oftentimes invisible and hard to trace; 
Whereas traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death 
and disability among children and young adults in the 
United States; 
Whereas 15 percent of high school youth report sports or 
recreation-related concussions annually; 
Whereas most cases of traumatic brain injury are prevent-
able; 
Whereas the lack of public awareness is so vast that trau-
matic brain injury has been known in the disability com-
munity as the Nation’s ‘‘silent epidemic’’; 
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•HRES 1049 IH 
Whereas the designation of a National Brain Injury Aware-
ness Month will enhance public awareness of traumatic 
brain injury; and 
Whereas advocacy organizations, including the Brain Injury 
Association of America, the National Association of State 
Head Injury Administrators and the United States Brain 
Injury Alliance, have all recognized March as Brain In-
jury Awareness Month: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the life-altering impact traumatic 
brain injury may have both on Americans living with 
the resultant disabilities and on their families; 
(2) recognizes the need for enhanced public 
awareness of traumatic brain injury; 
(3) supports the designation of an appropriate 
month as National Brain Injury Awareness Month; 
and 
(4) encourages the President to issue a procla-
mation designating such a month. 
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