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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.4556 Type of Legislation:Concurrent Resolution CR Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:20020122 Primary Sponsor:Rice All Sponsors:Rice, Robinson, Trotter and Webb Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\ggs\22262sd02.doc Date Bill Passed both Bodies:20020124 Subject:St. Jude Medical, Inc., Pickens County History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 20020124 Returned with concurrence Senate 20020123 Introduced, adopted, returned with concurrence House 20020122 Introduced, adopted, sent to Senate Versions of This Bill
TO COMMEND AND CONGRATULATE ST. JUDE MEDICAL INC. IN PICKENS COUNTY ON THE OCCASION OF ITS RECEIVING THE 2001 INNOVISION AWARD FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR ITS REVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CAPACITORS FOR IMPLANTABLE HEART DEVICES.
Whereas, the members of the General Assembly are proud to recognize St. Jude Medical Inc. in Pickens County for receiving the 2001 InnoVision Technology Award on November 6, 2001, for its innovative development of capacitors for implantable heart devices; and
Whereas, St. Jude Medical Inc. is a technically oriented facility performing praiseworthy advances in heart implant devices and in other apparatus for medical uses worthy of recognition; and
Whereas, St. Jude's research reduced the size of the capacitor by up to four hundred percent and significantly increased its power, allowing sophisticated treatment options to more patients; and
Whereas, Tom Strange, the director of research and development at St. Jude, is part of the sixteen-man team that designed the flat, high-energy capacitor specifically for patients who are at risk for imminent cardiac death; and
Whereas, the General Assembly is pleased to have such ground-breaking achievement in the State and applauds St. Jude Medical Inc. for its outstanding accomplishment and award. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the members of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, commend and congratulate St. Jude Medical Inc. in Pickens County on the occasion of its receiving the 2001 InnoVision Award for Technology Development for its revolutionary research and development of capacitors for implantable heart devices.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to St. Jude Medical Inc. in Pickens County.
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