[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 953 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 953

    To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for programs 
                       regarding ovarian cancer.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 1997

 Mrs. Mink of Hawaii (for herself, Mr. Ackerman, Ms. Christian-Green, 
Ms. DeGette, Mr. Evans, Mr. Frost, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, 
Ms. Lofgren, Ms. McKinney, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Mascara, Mrs. 
  Meek of Florida, Mrs. Morella, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Slaughter, and Ms. 
   Woolsey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for programs 
                       regarding ovarian 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 ``Ovarian Cancer Research and 
Information Amendments of 1997''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR RESEARCH ON OVARIAN CANCER.

    Section 417B(b)(2) of the Public Health Service Act is amended--
            (1) by striking ``cancers.--For the purpose of'' and all 
        that follows through ``417,'' and inserting the following: 
        ``cancers.--
                    ``(A) For the purpose of carrying out section 
                417(d),''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following subparagraph:
                    ``(B)(i) For the purpose of carrying out research 
                under section 417(d) on ovarian cancer, there are 
                authorized to be appropriated $90,000,000 for fiscal 
                year 1998, and such sums as may be necessary for each 
                of the fiscal years 1999 and 2000. With respect to such 
                purpose, such authorizations of appropriations are in 
                addition to the authorizations of appropriations 
                established in subparagraph (A) and in subsection (a).
                    ``(ii) Of the amounts appropriated under clause (i) 
                for a fiscal year, the Director of the Institute shall 
                reserve 50 percent for research described in such 
                clause that does not involve treatment or clinical 
                trials, and 50 percent for research described in such 
                clause that does involve treatment and clinical trials.
                    ``(iii) In expending the amounts reserved under 
                clause (ii) for a fiscal year, the Director of the 
                Institute shall ensure that 1 or more programs of 
                research on ovarian cancer are carried out under the 
                programs designated by the Director as the Specialized 
                Programs of Research Excellence.''.

SEC. 3. PUBLIC INFORMATION AND EDUCATION ON OVARIAN CANCER.

    Section 417(d)(4) of the Public Health Service Act is amended by 
striking ``section 413; and'' and inserting the following: ``section 
413, which programs shall include programs on ovarian cancer that 
(subject to changes in the applicable facts) provide information and 
education regarding--
                    ``(A) screening procedures for such cancer, 
                including the fact that there is not a procedure that 
                reliably provides for the early detection of such 
                cancer;
                    ``(B) the fact that there may be a genetic basis to 
                such cancer;
                    ``(C) factors indicating a substantial risk of such 
                cancer; and
                    ``(D) the various treatments for such cancer and 
                the extent to which the treatments are effective; 
                and''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act takes effect October 1, 1997, or upon the date of the 
enactment of this Act, whichever occurs later.
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