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[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1094 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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.

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                   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

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                                 A BILL

 
    To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research, 
        information, and education with respect to blood cancer.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Hematological Cancer Research 
Investment and Education Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that:
            (1) An estimated 109,500 people in the United States will 
        be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma in 
        2001.
            (2) New cases of the blood cancers described in paragraph 
        (1) account for 8.6 percent of new cancer cases.
            (3) Those devastating blood cancers will cause the deaths 
        of an estimated 60,300 persons in the United States in 2001. 
        Every 9 minutes, a person in the United States dies from 
        leukemia, lymphoma, or multiple myeloma.
            (4) While less than 5 percent of Federal funds for cancer 
        research are spent on those blood cancers, those blood cancers 
        cause 11 percent of all cancer deaths in the United States.
            (5) Increased Federal support of research into leukemia, 
        lymphoma, and multiple myeloma has resulted and will continue 
        to result in significant advances in the early detection, the 
        treatment, and ultimately the cure of those blood cancers.

SEC. 3. RESEARCH, INFORMATION, AND EDUCATION WITH RESPECT TO BLOOD 
              CANCER.

    (a) Research.--Part B of title IV of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 284 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 409I. RESEARCH, INFORMATION, AND EDUCATION WITH RESPECT TO BLOOD 
              CANCER.

    ``(a) Research.--
            ``(1) Subject.--The Director of the National Institutes of 
        Health shall establish and carry out a program for the conduct 
        and support of research with respect to blood cancer, and 
        particularly with respect to leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple 
        myeloma.
            ``(2) Administration.--The Director of the National 
        Institutes of Health shall carry out this subsection through 
        the Director of the National Cancer Institute and in 
        collaboration with any other agencies that the Director of the 
        National Institutes of Health determines to be appropriate.
            ``(3) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this subsection $250,000,000 
        for fiscal year 2002 and each subsequent fiscal year.
    ``(b) Information and Education.--
            ``(1) Subject.--The Director of the Centers for Disease 
        Control and Prevention shall establish and carry out a program 
        to provide information and education for the general public 
        with respect to blood cancer, and particularly with respect to 
        leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma.
            ``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this subsection $25,000,000 for 
        fiscal year 2002 and each subsequent fiscal year.''.
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