I
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 239
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
JANUARY 20, 2001
Ms. LEE (for herself, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. CARSON of Indiana,
Mrs. MORELLA, Mr. FROST, Mr. MCGOVERN, and Mr. PAYNE) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy
and 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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Benign Brain Tumor
Cancer Registries Amendment Act’’.
SEC. 2. NATIONAL PROGRAM OF CANCER REGISTRIES; BE-
NIGN BRAIN-RELATED TUMORS AS ADDI-
TIONAL CATEGORY OF DATA COLLECTED.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 399B of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280e), as redesignated by
section 502(2)(A) of Public Law 106–310 (114 Stat.
1115), is amended in subsection (a)—
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through
(5) as subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively;
(2) by striking ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Sec-
retary’’ and inserting the following:
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—
‘‘(1) STATEWIDE
CANCER
REGISTRIES.—The
Secretary’’;
(3) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)
(as so redesignated), by striking ‘‘population-based’’
and all that follows through ‘‘data’’ and inserting
the following: ‘‘population-based, statewide registries
to collect, for each condition specified in paragraph
(2)(A), data’’; and
(4) by adding at the end the following para-
graph:
‘‘(2) CANCER; BENIGN
BRAIN-RELATED
TU-
MORS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of para-
graph (1), the conditions referred to in this
paragraph are the following:
‘‘(i) Each form of in-situ and invasive
cancer (with the exception of basal cell and
squamous cell carcinoma of the skin), in-
cluding malignant brain-related tumors.
‘‘(ii) Benign brain-related tumors.
‘‘(B) BRAIN-RELATED TUMOR.—For pur-
poses of subparagraph (A):
‘‘(i) The term ‘brain-related tumor’
means a primary tumor (whether malig-
nant or benign) occurring in any of the fol-
lowing sites:
‘‘(I) The brain, meninges, spinal
cord, cauda equina, a cranial nerve or
nerves, or any other part of the cen-
tral nervous system.
‘‘(II) The pituitary gland, pineal
gland, or craniopharyngeal duct.
‘‘(ii) The term ‘tumor’ includes cysts
and tumor-like lesions.
‘‘(C) STATEWIDE
CANCER
REGISTRY.—
References in this section to cancer registries
shall be considered to be references to registries
described in this subsection.’’.
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a) apply to grants under section 399B of the Pub-
lic Health Service Act for fiscal year 2001 and subsequent
fiscal years, except that, in the case of a State that re-
ceived such a grant for fiscal year 2000, the Secretary
of Health and Human Services may delay the applicability
of such amendments to the State for not more than 12
months if the Secretary determines that compliance with
such amendments requires the enactment of a statute by
the State or the issuance of State regulations.
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