3.0.0 792 2023-01-11T13:19:24Z 2023-01-11T13:19:24Z Senate S S 2009-04-02 111 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-04-02T19:12:41Z 2009-04-02 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2009-04-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT N Health Cancer Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Environmental health Government information and archives Health care costs and insurance Health information and medical records Infectious and parasitic diseases Health 00 2009-04-02 Introduced in Senate 2009-05-11T21:48:08Z Improvement of the National Program of Cancer Registries Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise requirements for statewide cancer registries and require the inclusion in such registries of information on: (1) the highest level of education attained by adults with cancer; (2) sources of payment by individuals for the costs of cancer diagnosis and treatment; and (3) the history of alcohol and tobacco use by individuals with cancer.

Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) develop standards for collection of data elements for state cancer registries; (2) develop inter-operability and security standards for data exchange and integration between state cancer registries and any cancer registry and another federal registry for non-cancer diseases; and (3) provide a basic electronic collection tool to facilitate standardized data collection.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to facilitate coordination of the National Program of Cancer Registries with other federally-supported registry programs, including infectious disease registries, environmental disease registries, and other non-cancer, chronic disease registries.

]]> Improvement of the National Program of Cancer Registries Act Display Title Improvement of the National Program of Cancer Registries Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the National Program of Cancer Registries by expanding data collection and allowing data sharing for public health objectives, while preserving the confidentiality of patients, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Improvement of the National Program of Cancer Registries Act Introduced in Senate 2009-04-02T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s792is/xml/BILLS-111s792is.xml 2009-04-02 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.