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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 17
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this Act are not applicable in a certain fiscal year; requiring the Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct a certain study and issue a certain report;
prohibiting the State Department of Education from discontinuing the
administration of a certain survey except under certain circumstances; providing
that a certain statewide medical health center may not receive in certain fiscal
years a Statewide Academic Health Center Cancer Research Grant unless the
grant is used for certain purposes; providing that the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene may not distribute a Statewide Academic Health Center
Tobacco-Related Diseases Research Grant in a certain fiscal year; providing that
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene may not distribute any grants to
a certain statewide medical health center until certain entities submit a certain
memorandum of understanding; stating legislative intent with respect to the
inclusion of funds in the State budget for a certain fiscal year for the
implementation of a certain plan; requiring a certain amount of money to be
included in a certain supplemental budget for a certain fiscal year to be used to
provide certain outreach and start-up technical assistance to African American
communities in the State for certain purposes; requiring a comprehensive
evaluation of the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program and the Cancer
Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program to be conducted at the
end of a certain fiscal year; defining certain terms; and generally relating to the
Cigarette Restitution Fund and programs relating to tobacco use prevention and
cessation and to cancer prevention, education, screening, and treatment.
FOR the purpose of establishing a Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program
and a Cancer and tobacco-Related Diseases Prevention, Identification, and
Treatment Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene;
providing that the programs shall be funded as provided in the State budget
with money from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; establishing a Surveillance
and Evaluation Component, a Statewide Public Health Component; a
Countermarketing and Media Component, a Local Public Health Component,
and an Administrative Component in the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation
Program; establishing a Surveillance and Evaluation Component, a Cancer
Prevention, Identification, and Treatment Major Community Hospital
Component, a Tobacco-Related Diseases Component, a Primary Health-Care
Component, a Local Public Health Component, a Targeted Hospital Capacity
Component; a Statewide Academic Health Center Component; and an
Administrative Component in the Cancer and Tobacco Related Diseases
Prevention, Identification, and Treatment Program; requiring the annual
budget bill to specify the amount of funding that is allocated to each of these
components; requiring certain baseline studies to be conducted; requiring that
preference bo given to certain entities with certain records in awarding certain
contracts; requiring that certain funds be distributed according to certain
formulas; requiring that certain funds be used for certain purposes; requiring
certain entities to submit certain plans and reports before receiving certain
funds; clarifying that the Cigarette Restitution Fund may be used to fund the
programs established under this Act; requiring the annual budget bill to include
a certain provision relating to the Cigarette Restitution Fund; requiring the
Department of Budget and Management to include certain information relating
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