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[S. 2558 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.2558

                      One Hundred Seventh Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
          the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two


                                 An Act


 
 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 399B of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 280e), as redesignated by section 502(2)(A) of Public Law 106-
310 (114 Stat. 1115), is amended in subsection (a)--
        (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (5) as 
    subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively, and indenting 
    appropriately;
        (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:
        ``(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 listed 
            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 `listed', with respect to a primary 
            tumor, means a primary tumor that is listed in the 
            International Classification of Diseases for Oncology 
            (commonly referred to as the ICD-O).
                ``(iii) The term `International Classification of 
            Diseases for Oncology' means a classification system that 
            includes topography (site) information and histology (cell 
            type information) developed by the World Health 
            Organization, in collaboration with international centers, 
            to promote international comparability in the collection, 
            classification, processing, and presentation of cancer 
            statistics. The ICD-O system is a supplement to the 
            International Statistical Classification of Diseases and 
            Related Health Problems (commonly known as the ICD) and is 
            the standard coding system used by cancer registries 
            worldwide. Such term includes any modification made to such 
            system for purposes of the United States. Such term further 
            includes any published classification system that is 
            internationally recognized as a successor to the 
            classification system referred to in the first sentence of 
            this clause.
            ``(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 399B of the Public Health Service Act for fiscal 
year 2002 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.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.