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2001 Session

Budget Amendments - SB800 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Quayle
Tobacco Funds for Cancer Prevention

Item 304 #4s

Item 304 #4s

First Year - FY2001 Second Year - FY2002
Health And Human Resources
Health, Department of FY2001 $0 FY2002 $5,000,000 GF
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 diseases (known as the Master Settlement Agreement), funds shall be provided to the Virginia Department of Health, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention/Nutrition to implement the Virginia Cancer Plan for 2001-2005 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.)