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2001 Session

Budget Amendments - HB1600 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Morgan
Tobacco Funds for Cancer Prevention

Item 304 #3h

Item 304 #3h

First Year - FY2001 Second Year - FY2002
Health And Human Resources
Health, Department of FY2001 $0 FY2002 $5,000,000 NGF
FY2001 0.00 FY2002 3.50 FTE

Language
Page 295, line 18, strike "$48,102,214" and insert "$53,102,214".
Page 296, after line 24, insert:
"G. Out of this appropriation, created through the filing of a suit by the Commonwealth of Virginia to recover past Medicaid expenditures attributed to tobacco-related disease known as the Master Settlement Agreement, funds shall be provided to the Virginia Department of Health, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention/Nutritions to implement the Virginia Cancer Plan for 2001 through 2005 developed in cooperation with the members of the Cancer Plan Advisory Committee."


Explanation
(This amendment adds funds from the tobacco settlement for tobacco use prevention, intervention, and cessation.)