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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 knowl-
edge 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 can-
cers; 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 pro-
viders 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 Serv-
ices 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 evalua-
tion 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 Sec-
retary into compliance with such sentence, and the antici-
pated 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 appro-
priated $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.