[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2064 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2064

    To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the program of 
                       research on breast cancer.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 11, 1996

   Ms. Snowe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend the program of 
                       research on breast 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 ``Breast Cancer Research Extension Act 
of 1996''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF PROGRAM OF RESEARCH ON BREAST CANCER.

    Section 417B(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
2861-8(b)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(1) Breast Cancer.--For the purpose of carrying out section 
417(c), there are authorized to be appropriated $575,000,000 for fiscal 
year 1997, and such sum as may be necessary for each of the fiscal 
years 1998 through 2001. Such authorizations of appropriations are in 
addition to the authorizations of appropriations established in 
subsection (a) with respect to such purpose.''
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