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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 18
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be conducted by a higher education institution or private entity. The Department shall
issue a request for proposal to select the entity that will conduct the comprehensive
evaluation. The comprehensive evaluation shall include an evaluation of; (1) the
administration of the Programs; and (2) the effectiveness of the Programs, including
an analysis of: (i) whether appropriate benchmarks based on objective performance
measures have been met; and (ii) the extent to which the short-term and long-term
goals established under §§ 13-1007 and 13-1109 of the Health - General Article have
been met. No later than February 1, 2004, the Department shall submit a proposed
request for proposal for the comprehensive evaluation to the Senate Budget and
Taxation Committee, Senate Finance Committee, House Appropriations Committee,
and House Environmental Matters Committee for review and comment. Based on the
results of the comprehensive evaluation, the Department shall consider whether the
Programs should be modified in any way. No later than November 1, 2004, the
Department shall submit a report to the Governor and, subject to § 2-1246 of the State
Government Article, the General Assembly that includes the results of the
comprehensive evaluation and the Department's recommendations regarding
modifications to the Programs.
SECTION 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That, except as provided in
Sections 2 through 5 of this Act, this Act shall take effect July 1, 2000.
Approved April 25, 2000.
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CHAPTER 18
(Senate Bill 896)
AN ACT concerning
Cigarette Restitution Fund - Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation
Program - Cancer Prevention, Identification Education, Screening, and
Treatment Program
FOR the purpose of establishing a Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program
and a Cancer Prevention, Identification Education, Screening, 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; authorizing the Legislative Auditor to audit the
appropriations and expenditures made for purposes of the programs;
establishing a Surveillance and Evaluation Component, a Statewide Public
Health Component, a Countermarketing Counter-Marketing 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 Statewide Public Health
Component, a Local Public Health Component, a Medical Institution Statewide
Academic Health Center Component, and an Administrative Component in the
Cancer Prevention, Mortification Education, Screening, and Treatment
Program; requiring the annual budget bill to specify the amount of funding that
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