A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should declare lung cancer a public health priority and should implement a comprehensive interagency program that will reduce lung cancer mortality by at least 50 percent by 2015.

Bill: 109-sres-408
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Case management
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chemotherapy
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Health surveys
Higher education
Imaging systems in medicine
Lung cancer
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical technology
Medical tests
Medicare
Military medicine
Mortality
Pharmaceutical research
Quality of care
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Smoking
Social Welfare
Surgery
Tobacco
Veterans' medical care
Vital statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Urges the President to: (1) declare lung cancer a public health priority and immediately lead a coordinated effort to reduce the mortality rate of lung cancer by 50% by 2015; (2) direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase funding for lung cancer research; (3) direct the Secretary of Defense to develop a lung cancer screening and disease management program among members of the Armed Forces and veterans and diagnostic programs for the early detection of lung cancer; (4) appoint the Lung Cancer Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee; and (5) convene a National Lung Cancer Public Health Policy Board to oversee and coordinate all efforts to reduce the lung cancer mortality rate.

action_date: 2006-05-02
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Urges the President to: (1) declare lung cancer a public health priority and immediately lead a coordinated effort to reduce the mortality rate of lung cancer by 50% by 2015; (2) direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase funding for lung cancer research; (3) direct the Secretary of Defense to develop a lung cancer screening and disease management program among members of the Armed Forces and veterans and diagnostic programs for the early detection of lung cancer; (4) appoint the Lung Cancer Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee; and (5) convene a National Lung Cancer Public Health Policy Board to oversee and coordinate all efforts to reduce the lung cancer mortality rate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text of measure as passed Senate: CR H3918)
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(text of measure as passed Senate: CR H3918)
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3918)
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S3918)
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2473-2474)
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in Senate