Florida Senate - 2009 CS for SB 1664
By the Committee on Health and Human Services Appropriations;
and Senator Peaden
603-03991-09 20091664c1
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to health care; amending s. 381.84,
3 F.S.; deleting provisions limiting certain activities
4 of the Florida Area Health Education Network and the
5 Department of Health to specified fiscal years;
6 increasing the amount of a contract or grant required
7 to be awarded to the AHEC network by the department
8 for the purpose of developing a smoking-cessation
9 initiative; deleting a provision authorizing the AHEC
10 network to apply for a competitive grant after a
11 specified date; amending s. 381.922, F.S.; decreasing
12 the amount of annual appropriations to the Biomedical
13 Research Trust Fund within the Department of Health
14 beginning with the 2009-2010 fiscal year; providing an
15 effective date.
16
17 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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19 Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subsection (3) and subsection
20 (6) of section 381.84, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
21 381.84 Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education and Use
22 Prevention Program.—
23 (3) PROGRAM COMPONENTS AND REQUIREMENTS.—The department
24 shall conduct a comprehensive, statewide tobacco education and
25 use prevention program consistent with the recommendations for
26 effective program components contained in the 1999 Best
27 Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs of the CDC,
28 as amended by the CDC. The program shall include the following
29 components, each of which shall focus on educating people,
30 particularly youth and their parents, about the health hazards
31 of tobacco and discouraging the use of tobacco:
32 (i) AHEC smoking-cessation initiative.—For the 2007-2008
33 and 2008-2009 fiscal years only, The AHEC network shall expand
34 the AHEC smoking-cessation initiative to each county within the
35 state and perform other activities as determined by the
36 department.
37 (6) CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS.—Contracts or grants for the
38 program components or subcomponents described in paragraphs
39 (3)(a)-(f) shall be awarded by the State Surgeon General, after
40 consultation with the council, on the basis of merit, as
41 determined by an open, competitive, peer-reviewed process that
42 ensures objectivity, consistency, and high quality. The
43 department shall award such grants or contracts no later than
44 October 1 for each fiscal year. A recipient of a contract or
45 grant for the program component described in paragraph (3)(c) is
46 not eligible for a contract or grant award for any other program
47 component described in subsection (3) in the same state fiscal
48 year. A school or college of medicine that is represented on the
49 council is not eligible to receive a contract or grant under
50 this section. For the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 fiscal years only,
51 The department shall award a contract or grant in the amount of
52 $11 million $10 million to the AHEC network for the purpose of
53 developing the components described in paragraph (3)(i). The
54 AHEC network may apply for a competitive contract or grant after
55 the 2008-2009 fiscal year.
56 Section 2. Subsection (5) of section 381.922, Florida
57 Statutes, as amended by section 2 of chapter 2009-5, Laws of
58 Florida, is amended to read:
59 381.922 William G. “Bill” Bankhead, Jr., and David Coley
60 Cancer Research Program.—
61 (5) For the 2009-2010 2008-2009 fiscal year and each fiscal
62 year thereafter, the sum of $5 million $6.75 million is
63 appropriated annually from recurring funds in the General
64 Revenue Fund to the Biomedical Research Trust Fund within the
65 Department of Health for purposes of the William G. “Bill”
66 Bankhead, Jr., and David Coley Cancer Research Program and shall
67 be distributed pursuant to this section to provide grants to
68 researchers seeking cures for cancer, with emphasis given to the
69 goals enumerated in s. 381.921. From the total funds
70 appropriated, an amount of up to 10 percent may be used for
71 administrative expenses.
72 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.