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107TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 1094

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research, information,

and education with respect to blood cancer.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JUNE 22, 2001

Mrs. HUTCHISON (for herself, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mrs. MURRAY, and Mr.

INOUYE) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred

to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

A BILL

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for

research, information, and education with respect to

blood cancer.

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 ‘‘Hematological Cancer

5 Research Investment and Education Act of 2001’’.

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

7 Congress finds that:
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1 (1) An estimated 109,500 people in the United

2 States will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma,

3 and multiple myeloma in 2001.

4 (2) New cases of the blood cancers described in

5 paragraph (1) account for 8.6 percent of new cancer

6 cases.

7 (3) Those devastating blood cancers will cause

8 the deaths of an estimated 60,300 persons in the

9 United States in 2001. Every 9 minutes, a person

10 in the United States dies from leukemia, lymphoma,

11 or multiple myeloma.

12 (4) While less than 5 percent of Federal funds

13 for cancer research are spent on those blood cancers,

14 those blood cancers cause 11 percent of all cancer

15 deaths in the United States.

16 (5) Increased Federal support of research into

17 leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma has re18 sulted and will continue to result in significant ad19 vances in the early detection, the treatment, and ul20 timately the cure of those blood cancers.

21 SEC. 3. RESEARCH, INFORMATION, AND EDUCATION WITH

22 RESPECT TO BLOOD CANCER.

23 (a) RESEARCH.—Part B of title IV of the Public

24 Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 284 et seq.) is amended

25 by adding at the end the following:
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1 ‘‘SEC. 409I. RESEARCH, INFORMATION, AND EDUCATION

2 WITH RESPECT TO BLOOD CANCER.

3 ‘‘(a) RESEARCH.—

4 ‘‘(1) SUBJECT.—The Director of the National

5 Institutes of Health shall establish and carry out a

6 program for the conduct and support of research

7 with respect to blood cancer, and particularly with

8 respect to leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple

9 myeloma.

10 ‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATION.—The Director of the

11 National Institutes of Health shall carry out this

12 subsection through the Director of the National

13 Cancer Institute and in collaboration with any other

14 agencies that the Director of the National Institutes

15 of Health determines to be appropriate.

16 ‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

17 There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out

18 this subsection $250,000,000 for fiscal year 2002

19 and each subsequent fiscal year.

20 ‘‘(b) INFORMATION AND EDUCATION.—

21 ‘‘(1) SUBJECT.—The Director of the Centers

22 for Disease Control and Prevention shall establish

23 and carry out a program to provide information and

24 education for the general public with respect to

25 blood cancer, and particularly with respect to leu26 kemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma.
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1 ‘‘(2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

2 There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out

3 this subsection $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2002 and

4 each subsequent fiscal year.’’.

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