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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. R. 5204

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the collection of

data on benign brain-related tumors through the national program of

cancer registries.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEPTEMBER 19, 2000

Ms. LEE (for herself, Mr. CAPUANO, and Mr. SANDERS) introduced the

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce

A BILL

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for

the collection of data on benign brain-related tumors

through the national program of cancer registries.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Benign Brain Tumor

5 Cancer Registries Amendment Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. NATIONAL PROGRAM OF CANCER REGISTRIES; BE2 NIGN BRAIN-RELATED TUMORS AS ADDI3 TIONAL CATEGORY OF DATA COLLECTED.

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 399H(a) of the Public

5 Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280e(a)) is amended—

6 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through

7 (5) as subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively;

8 (2) by striking ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Sec9 retary’’ and inserting the following:

10 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—

11 ‘‘(1) STATEWIDE CANCER REGISTRIES.—The

12 Secretary’’;

13 (3) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)

14 (as so redesignated), by striking ‘‘population-based’’

15 and all that follows through ‘‘data’’ and inserting

16 the following: ‘‘population-based, statewide registries

17 to collect, for each condition specified in paragraph

18 (2)(A), data’’; and

19 (4) by adding at the end the following para20 graph:

21 ‘‘(2) CANCER; BENIGN BRAIN-RELATED TU22 MORS.—

23 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of para24 graph (1), the conditions referred to in this

25 paragraph are the following:
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1 ‘‘(i) Each form of in-situ and invasive

2 cancer (with the exception of basal cell and

3 squamous cell carcinoma of the skin), in4 cluding malignant brain-related tumors.

5 ‘‘(ii) Benign brain-related tumors.

6 ‘‘(B) BRAIN-RELATED TUMOR.—For pur7 poses of subparagraph (A):

8 ‘‘(i) The term ‘brain-related tumor’

9 means a primary tumor (whether malig10 nant or benign) occurring in any of the fol11 lowing sites:

12 ‘‘(I) The brain, meninges, spinal

13 cord, cauda equina, a cranial nerve or

14 nerves, or any other part of the cen15 tral nervous system.

16 ‘‘(II) The pituitary gland, pineal

17 gland, or craniopharyngeal duct.

18 ‘‘(ii) The term ‘tumor’ includes cysts

19 and tumor-like lesions.

20 ‘‘(C) STATEWIDE CANCER REGISTRY.—

21 References in this section to cancer registries

22 shall be considered to be references to registries

23 described in this subsection.’’.

24 (b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub25 section (a) apply to grants under section 399H of the Pub-
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1 lic Health Service Act for fiscal year 2001 and subsequent

2 fiscal years, except that, in the case of a State that re3 ceived such a grant for fiscal year 2000, the Secretary

4 of Health and Human Services may delay the applicability

5 of such amendments to the State for not more than 12

6 months if the Secretary determines that compliance with

7 such amendments requires the enactment of a statute by

8 the State or the issuance of State regulations.

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