[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5204 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5204

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the collection of 
  data on benign brain-related tumors through the national program of 
                           cancer registries.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 19, 2000

  Ms. Lee (for herself, Mr. Capuano, and Mr. Sanders) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the collection of 
  data on benign brain-related tumors through the national program of 
                           cancer registries.

    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 ``Benign Brain Tumor Cancer Registries 
Amendment Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL PROGRAM OF CANCER REGISTRIES; BENIGN BRAIN-RELATED 
              TUMORS AS ADDITIONAL CATEGORY OF DATA COLLECTED.

    (a) In General.--Section 399H(a) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 280e(a)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (5) as 
        subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively;
            (2) by striking ``(a) In General.--The Secretary'' and 
        inserting the following:
    ``(a) In General.--
            ``(1) Statewide cancer registries.--The Secretary'';
            (3) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) (as so 
        redesignated), by striking ``population-based'' and all that 
        follows through ``data'' and inserting the following: 
        ``population-based, statewide registries to collect, for each 
        condition specified in paragraph (2)(A), data''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following paragraph:
            ``(2) Cancer; benign brain-related tumors.--
                    ``(A) In general.--For purposes of paragraph (1), 
                the conditions referred to in this paragraph are the 
                following:
                            ``(i) Each form of in-situ and invasive 
                        cancer (with the exception of basal cell and 
                        squamous cell carcinoma of the skin), including 
                        malignant brain-related tumors.
                            ``(ii) Benign brain-related tumors.
                    ``(B) Brain-related tumor.--For purposes of 
                subparagraph (A):
                            ``(i) The term `brain-related tumor' means 
                        a primary tumor (whether malignant or benign) 
                        occurring in any of the following sites:
                                    ``(I) The brain, meninges, spinal 
                                cord, cauda equina, a cranial nerve or 
                                nerves, or any other part of the 
                                central nervous system.
                                    ``(II) The pituitary gland, pineal 
                                gland, or craniopharyngeal duct.
                            ``(ii) The term `tumor' includes cysts and 
                        tumor-like lesions.
                    ``(C) Statewide cancer registry.--References in 
                this section to cancer registries shall be considered 
                to be references to registries described in this 
                subsection.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) apply to 
grants under section 399H of the Public Health Service Act for fiscal 
year 2001 and subsequent fiscal years, except that, in the case of a 
State that received such a grant for fiscal year 2000, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services may delay the applicability of such 
amendments to the State for not more than 12 months if the Secretary 
determines that compliance with such amendments requires the enactment 
of a statute by the State or the issuance of State regulations.
                                 <all>