H. R. 1245

One Hundred Ninth Congress

of the

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and six 

An Act 

To provide for programs to increase the awareness and knowledge of women and 

health care providers with respect to gynecologic cancers.

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 ‘‘Gynecologic Cancer Education 

and Awareness Act of 2005’’ or ‘‘Johanna’s Law’’. 

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT. 

Section 317P of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247b–

17) is amended—

(1) in the section heading by adding ‘‘(johanna’s law)’’ 

at the end; and 

(2) by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(d) JOHANNA’S LAW.—

‘‘(1) NATIONAL PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN.—

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall carry out a 

national campaign to increase the awareness and knowledge of health care providers and women with respect 

to gynecologic cancers. 

‘‘(B) WRITTEN MATERIALS.—Activities under the 

national campaign under subparagraph (A) shall include—

‘‘(i) maintaining a supply of written materials that 

provide information to the public on gynecologic cancers; and 

‘‘(ii) distributing the materials to members of the 

public upon request. 

‘‘(C) PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS.—Activities 

under the national campaign under subparagraph (A) shall, 

in accordance with applicable law and regulations, include 

developing and placing, in telecommunications media, 

public service announcements intended to encourage 

women to discuss with their physicians their risks of 

gynecologic cancers. Such announcements shall inform the 

public on the manner in which the written materials 

referred to in subparagraph (B) can be obtained upon 

request, and shall call attention to early warning signs 

and risk factors based on the best available medical 

information. 

‘‘(2) REPORT AND STRATEGY.— ‘‘(A) REPORT.—Not later than 6 months after the date 

of the enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall 

submit to the Congress a report including the following: 
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‘‘(i) A description of the past and present activities 

of the Department of Health and Human Services to 

increase awareness and knowledge of the public with 

respect to different types of cancer, including 

gynecologic cancers. 

‘‘(ii) A description of the past and present activities 

of the Department of Health and Human Services to 

increase awareness and knowledge of health care providers with respect to different types of cancer, 

including gynecologic cancers. 

‘‘(iii) For each activity described pursuant to clause 

(i) or (ii), a description of the following: 

‘‘(I) The funding for such activity for fiscal 

year 2006 and the cumulative funding for such 

activity for previous fiscal years. 

‘‘(II) The background and history of such 

activity, including—

‘‘(aa) the goals of such activity; 

‘‘(bb) the communications objectives of 

such activity; 

‘‘(cc) the identity of each agency within 

the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for any aspect of the activity; 

and 

‘‘(dd) how such activity is or was expected 

to result in change. 

‘‘(III) How long the activity lasted or is 

expected to last. 

‘‘(IV) The outcomes observed and the evaluation methods, if any, that have been, are being, 

or will be used with respect to such activity. 

‘‘(V) For each such outcome or evaluation 

method, a description of the associated results, 

analyses, and conclusions. 

‘‘(B) STRATEGY.—

‘‘(i) DEVELOPMENT; SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—Not 

later than 3 months after submitting the report 

required by subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall 

develop and submit to the Congress a strategy for 

improving efforts to increase awareness and knowledge 

of the public and health care providers with respect 

to different types of cancer, including gynecological 

cancers. 

‘‘(ii) CONSULTATION.—In developing the strategy 

under clause (i), the Secretary should consult with 

qualified private sector groups, including nonprofit 

organizations. 

‘‘(3) FULL COMPLIANCE.—

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than March 1, 2008, the 

Secretary shall ensure that all provisions of this section, 

including activities directed to be carried out by the Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug 

Administration, are fully implemented and being complied 

with. Not later than April 30, 2008, the Secretary shall 

submit to Congress a report that certifies compliance with 

the preceding sentence and that contains a description 

of all activities undertaken to achieve such compliance. 
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‘‘(B) If the Secretary fails to submit the certification 

as provided for under subparagraph (A), the Secretary 

shall, not later than 3 months after the date on which 

the report is to be submitted under subparagraph (A), 

and every 3 months thereafter, submit to Congress an 

explanation as to why the Secretary has not yet complied 

with the first sentence of subparagraph (A), a detailed 

description of all actions undertaken within the month 

for which the report is being submitted to bring the Secretary into compliance with such sentence, and the anticipated date the Secretary expects to be in full compliance 

with such sentence. 

‘‘(4) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the purpose 

of carrying out this subsection, there is authorized to be appropriated $16,500,000 for the period of fiscal years 2007 through 

2009.’’.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.