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Ch. 307
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2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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CHAPTER 307
(Senate Bill 791)
AN ACT concerning
Oral Health Program Programs - Reducing Oral Cancer Mortality
FOR the purpose of requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to
establish a program the Oral Health Program to prevent and detect oral cancer
in the State with a certain focus and intent; providing for targeting the program
to target the needs of high-risk underserved populations; requiring the program
Secretary, in consultation with certain providers, to develop and implement
certain programs to train health care providers to screen and refer patients with
oral cancers; providing for the promotion of and to promote certain smoking
cessation programs; providing for the education to prevent and detect oral
cancer of certain citizens of the State; requiring the Secretary to establish a the
Prevent Oral Cancer Pilot Program to screen, refer, and treat certain adults;
providing that the pilot program may be undertaken in conjunction with certain
other initiatives; requiring the Secretary to evaluate the pilot program and to
submit a report certain reports annually to the Governor and the General
Assembly; requiring the Oral Health Advisory Committee to make certain
recommendations; providing for the funding of certain programs established
under the provisions of this Act; providing for the termination of certain
provisions of this Act; and generally relating to an oral health program to
prevent and detect oral cancer in the State the Oral Health Program and the
Prevent Oral Cancer Pilot Program.
BY adding to
Article - Health - General
Section 18-801 through 18-804 18-803 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 8.
Oral Health Program"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Health - General
SUBTITLE 8. ORAL HEALTH PROGRAM.
18-801.
THE SECRETARY SHALL ESTABLISH AND PROMOTE A THE ORAL HEALTH
PROGRAM TO PREVENT AND DETECT ORAL CANCER IN THE STATE, WITH A PRIMARY
FOCUS OF MEETING THE NEEDS OF HIGH-RISK UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS, WITH
THE INTENT TO REDUCE ORAL CANCER MORTALITY.
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