Senate Bill S281

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Establishes the lung cancer early detection research pilot program to provide grants to public and private entities doing such research, and appropriates $10,000,000

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S281 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Appropriations
Laws Affected:
Add Art 20-B §2010, Pub Health L

2009-S281 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the lung cancer early detection research pilot program to provide grants to public and nonprofit private entities doing such research with population with a high risk of lung cancer, and appropriates $10,000,000 therefor.

2009-S281 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S281 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   281

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  establishing  the
  lung  cancer  early  detection  research  pilot program; and making an
  appropriation therefor

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new article
20-B to read as follows:
                              ARTICLE 20-B
           LUNG CANCER EARLY DETECTION RESEARCH PILOT PROGRAM
SECTION 2010. LUNG CANCER EARLY DETECTION RESEARCH PILOT PROGRAM.
  S 2010. LUNG CANCER EARLY DETECTION RESEARCH  PILOT  PROGRAM.  1.  THE
COMMISSIONER  SHALL AWARD NOT LESS THAN TEN COMPETITIVE GRANTS TO PUBLIC
AND NON-PROFIT PRIVATE ENTITIES TO ENABLE  SUCH  ENTITIES  TO  ESTABLISH
PILOT  PROGRAMS  PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE TO CARRY OUT LUNG CANCER EARLY
DETECTION RESEARCH USING COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (CT) SCANNING WITHIN A HIGH
RISK POPULATION UTILIZING THE COMPREHENSIVE  PROTOCOL  THAT  ENCOMPASSES
PRE-DIAGNOSIS   AND   POST-DIAGNOSIS,  THAT  WAS  DEVELOPED  UNDER  BEST
PUBLISHED CLINICAL PRACTICES, AND THAT WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE  MULTI-IN-
STITUTIONAL,   MULTI-DISCIPLINARY   RESEARCH   PROGRAM   THAT  BEGAN  AT
TWENTY-TWO SITES IN THE STATE IN THE YEAR  NINETEEN  HUNDRED  NINETY-ONE
AND  WAS  INITIATED  AS A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM IN THE YEAR
NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-THREE, PROVIDED THAT:
  (A) NO LESS THAN FIFTY PERCENT OF THE PARTICIPANTS HAVE FAMILY  INCOME
BELOW ONE HUNDRED FIFTY PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL; AND
  (B)  ALL  GRANTEES  AGREE TO ADOPT THE PROTOCOL AND PARTICIPATE IN THE
PROGRAM ESTABLISHED IN THIS SECTION.
  2. SUCH PILOT PROGRAM SHALL CONTINUE AND ENHANCE THE  RESEARCH  INITI-
ATED  BY THE PROGRAM REFERRED TO IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION INTO

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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