[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 426 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 426

   To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program to 
                 educate the public on prostate cancer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

 Mrs. Vucanovich introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program to 
                 educate the public on prostate cancer.

    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 ``Prostate Cancer Public Awareness Act 
of 1991''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ON PROSTATE 
              CANCER.

    Section 413(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285a-
2(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) In providing public and patient information and education 
programs under paragraph (2)(A), the Director of the Institute shall 
carry out such a program on prostate cancer, and through the program 
shall conduct or support activities--
            ``(A) to educate men who are 40 years of age or older on 
        the need for periodically undergoing physical examinations for 
        such cancer, including education on the frequency and type of 
        such examinations that are appropriate for various age groups 
        of such men; and
            ``(B) in the case of such men who are at particular risk of 
        the cancer, to educate the men on the availability and 
        appropriateness of procedures for detecting the cancer in the 
        earlier stages of the cancer, including the procedure known as 
        prostate ultrasound.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 2 shall take effect October 1, 1993, 
or upon the date of the enactment of this Act, whichever occurs later.

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