CHAPTER 144
HB 1231 – FINAL VERSION
05/08/08 1638s
2008 SESSION
01/10
HOUSE BILL 1231
AN ACT repealing the advisory panel on cancer and chronic diseases and the tobacco use advisory committee and relative to the New Hampshire comprehensive cancer plan.
SPONSORS: Rep. MacKay, Merr 11; Rep. Almy, Graf 11
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill repeals the advisory panel on cancer and chronic diseases and the tobacco use advisory committee.
This bill also allows the comprehensive cancer plan oversight board to allocate the amounts to be expended from the comprehensive cancer plan fund on certain programs. Current law includes percentage amounts for such programs.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
05/08/08 1638s
08-2346
01/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight
AN ACT repealing the advisory panel on cancer and chronic diseases and the tobacco use advisory committee and relative to the New Hampshire comprehensive cancer plan.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
144:1 Repeals. The following are repealed:
I. RSA 141-B:6, relative to the advisory panel on cancer and chronic diseases.
II. RSA 126-K:19, relative to the tobacco use advisory committee.
144:2 New Hampshire Comprehensive Cancer Plan. Amend RSA 126-A:64 to read as follows:
126-A:64 Comprehensive Cancer Plan Fund. There is hereby established in the office of the state treasurer the comprehensive cancer plan fund, to be administered by the department of health and human services. The department is authorized to accept public sector and private sector grants, gifts, donations, and appropriations for deposit into the fund. The fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the department, and shall be used to implement the provisions of the New Hampshire comprehensive cancer plan as developed by the New Hampshire comprehensive cancer collaboration. The fund shall be expended annually for the following purposes, with allocations determined by the comprehensive cancer plan oversight board:
I. [67.4 percent towards the state tobacco use prevention program which shall be expended by the department for] Tobacco use prevention and cessation programs [as provided] using strategies included in RSA 126-K:15.
II. [2.5 percent towards] Diet and exercise programs.
III. [5.9 percent towards] Early detection and screening programs for breast and cervical cancer.
IV. [17.6 percent towards] Early detection and screening programs for colorectal cancer.
V. [1.2 percent towards] Survivorship and cancer support for those affected by prostate cancer.
VI. [2.2 percent to identify and promote treatment and] Support services for survivors.
VII. [3.2 percent to minority oversampling data for information on] Data collection and analysis of minority population behavioral risk and cancer rates.
144:3 Comprehensive Cancer Plan Oversight Board. Amend RSA 126-A:65, III to read as follows:
III. The [board of directors] members of the board may appoint other members to the comprehensive cancer plan oversight board.
144:4 Effective Date.
I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: June 6, 2008
Effective Date: I. Section 1 shall take effect August 5, 2008.
II. Remainder shall take effect June 6, 2008.