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Introduced Session

This resolution designates February 12th of each year as "Carly Day" in New Jersey. Bayville resident Carly Fetzer was born with a congenital heart defect known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Congenital heart defects are problems with the structure of the heart that are present at birth and change the normal flow of blood through the heart. In the US, 9 out of every 1,000 babies will be born with a heart defect. In Carly's first years of life, she had three surgeries to reroute her body's blood flow and despite the odds she lived 18 remarkable years before she passed away. Carly's friends and family established the Carly Fetzer Queen of Hearts Foundation to honor Carly. The foundation provides food vouchers to families at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and donates money to research studies that focus on children with congenital heart defects. Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week is observed annually from February 7th to February 14th. Designating February 12th as "Carly Day" would provide New Jerseyans with an annual reminder on the effects that congenital heart defects have on individuals diagnosed with a congenital heart defect in the State.

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Gregory Myhre (R)*,  Brian Rumpf (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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