HB0839 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0839

Introduced 2/9/2009, by Rep. Elaine Nekritz

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

20 ILCS 2310/2310-640 new
30 ILCS 105/5.719 new

Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Public Health to award grants to eligible entities to conduct research in the early detection, prevention, cure, screening, and treatment of cancer. Requires the Department of Public Health to create an advisory committee with a primary focus that includes cancer prevention and the early detection, curing, screening, and treatment of cancer. Provides that moneys received for the purposes of these provisions shall be deposited into the Cancer Prevention Research Fund. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Cancer Prevention Research Fund.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning public health.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section 2310-640 as follows:

(20 ILCS 2310/2310-640 new)

Sec. 2310-640. Cancer prevention research.

(a) For the purposes of this Section, "research" includes, but is not limited to, expenditures to develop and advance the understanding, techniques, and modalities that are effective in the early detection, prevention, cure, screening, and treatment of cancer and may include clinical trials.

(b) The Department of Public Health shall award grants to eligible physicians, hospitals, laboratories, educational institutions, and other organizations and persons from funds appropriated to the Department from the Cancer Prevention Research Fund to enable organizations and persons to conduct research.

(c) The Department of Public Health shall create an advisory committee with members from State associations and advocacy organizations with a primary focus that includes cancer prevention and the early detection, curing, screening, and treatment of cancer.

(d) The Cancer Prevention Research Fund is created as a special fund in the State treasury. Moneys received for the purposes of this Section, including, but not limited to, grants, awards from private foundations, nonprofit organizations, governmental entities, and persons shall be deposited into the Fund. Moneys in the Fund shall be used, subject to appropriation, by the Department of Public Health for the purposes set forth in this Section.

Section 90. The State Finance Act is amended by adding Section 5.719 as follows:

(30 ILCS 105/5.719 new)

Sec. 5.719. The Cancer Prevention Research Fund.