Budget Amendment ID: FY2017-S4-568

EHS 568

Prostate Cancer Research

Messrs. Brownsberger and Brady, Ms. Flanagan, Mr. Eldridge, Ms. Gobi, Mr. Lewis, Ms. L'Italien, Messrs. Moore, Rush, Welch, Wolf and deMacedo, Ms. Creem, Messrs. Barrett and McGee moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by striking out item 4590-0925 and inserting in place thereof the following item:-

“4590-0925For the costs of a prostate cancer research program integrated with awareness and education focusing on men with Hispanic, Latino or African-American heritage, family history of the disease and other men at high risk; provided, that the department of public health shall oversee and manage the program and shall grant not less than 85 per cent of the funds from this item to a non-profit research foundation that shall leverage existing state-funded prostate cancer action council partnerships with other state-funded non-profit organizations and current and past federally and state funded prostate cancer programs aimed at saving lives, improving quality of life and reducing health care costs………………………………………………………..…$700,000”