Cancer Prevention


Fall 2003, Issue 2

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Cancer Prevention Legislation

California

SB 689: to establish the Healthy Californians Biomonitoring Project to be administered by the State Department of Health Services.
Status: in committee.
www.leginfo.ca.gov


Connecticut

HB 509: to require all individual and group health insurance policies to provide blood testing for ovarian cancer.
Status: in committee
www.cga.state.ct.us/default.asp


SB 2: to provide early detection and treatment referral services for ovarian cancer to unserved or underserved populations.
Status: in committee.
www.cga.state.ct.us/default.asp


SB 558: to ensure that younger women with significant family histories of breast cancer be eligible for preventive services under the Connecticut Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program.
Status: in committee.
www.cga.state.ct.us/default.asp


Delaware

SB 146: to allow the division of motor vehicles to issue specially designed breast cancer awareness license plates.
Status: in committee.
www.legis.state.de.us/legislature.nsf/?Opendatabase


Kansas

HB 2069: to provide coverage for expenses of clinical trials.
Status: in committee.
www.kslegislature.org


Minnesota

SF 1596: to provide health insurance coverage for ovarian cancer surveillance.
Status: in committee.
www.leg.state.mn.us


Mississippi

HB 918: to establish a breast cancer awareness program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center
Status: in committee.
www.ls.state.ms.us


HB 1308: to require that certain health insurance policies provide coverage for colorectal cancer examinations and laboratory tests.
Status: in committee.
www.ls.state.ms.us


Missouri

SB 349: to mandate insurance coverage for new phases of clinical trials for treatment of cancer
Status: in committee.
www.moga.state.mo.us


SB 86: to mandate insurance coverage for new phases of clinical trials and certain prostate cancer examinations.
Status: in committee.
www.moga.state.mo.us


New Hampshire

760-FN-A: to establish a New Hampshire healthy families trust fund by increasing tobacco taxes.
Status: in committee.
www.state.nh.us


New Jersey

A 101: to establish a 5-year breast cancer screening grant funding program.
Status: in committee.
www.njleg.state.nj.us


A 411: to establish the Alan M. Augustine Colon Cancer Research Fun.
Status: in committee.
www.njleg.state.nj.us


A 802: to establish targeted breast cancer education and screening initiatives.
Status: in committee.
www.njleg.state.nj.us


New York

A 580: to create a 'Stop Prostate Cancer' license plate program that applies revenues to prostate and testicular cancer research and education fund.
Status: in committee.
www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/legislature/legis.html


A 671: to require certain health insurance policies to provide coverage for diagnostic testing of ovarian cancer.
Status: in committee.
www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/legislature/legis.html


A 3033A: to require providers of health care policies to provide coverage for colorectal cancer early detection.
Status: in committee.
www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/legislature/legis.html


A 4953: to require accidental and health insurance policies to cover costs of genetic testing of persons with a family of cancer.
Status: in committee.
www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/legislature/legis.html


A 4657: to create a breast cancer registry.
Status: in committee.
www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/legislature/legis.html


S2986A: to require providers of health care policies to provide coverage for colorectal cancer early detection.
Status: in committee.
www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/legislature/legis.html


S2839: to authorize the awarding of grants by the Commissioner of Health for breast cancer counseling, education, and outreach programs to community-based agencies and organization.
Status: in committee.
www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/legislature/legis.html


North Carolina

SB 946: to authorize the division of motor vehicles to issue breast cancer awareness special registration plates.
Status: in committee.
www.ncga.state.nc.us/homePage.pl


Pennsylvania

HB 78: to mandate health insurance coverage for colorectal cancer screening.
Status: in committee.
www.legis.state.pa.us


Utah

SB 134: to require insurance policies and health maintenance contracts to provide coverage for preventive health services.
Status: in committee.
www.le.state.ut.us


Vermont

H 0305: to provide a 'Conquer Cancer' motor vehicle registration plate and cancer research education fund.
Status: in committee.
www.leg.state.vt.us/default.htm


Washington

HB 1793: to increase insurance coverage for colorectal cancer early detection.
Status: in committee.
www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/default.htm

 
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