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2020 Session

Budget Amendments - SB30 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Hanger
Establish a Pediatric Cancer Research Fund

Item 301 #1s

Item 301 #1s

First Year - FY2021 Second Year - FY2022
Health and Human Resources
Department of Health FY2021 $2,500,000 FY2022 $2,500,000 GF

Language
Page 284, line 12, strike "$170,087,860" and insert "$172,587,860".
Page 284, line 12, strike "$170,087,860" and insert "$172,587,860".

Page 285, after line 17, insert:

"H.  Out of this appropriation, $2,500,000 the first year and $2,500,000 the second year is provided to the Pediatric Cancer Research Fund.  The Virginia Department of Health shall establish an independent review committee to accept proposals from pediatric cancer treatment centers related to funding pediatric cancer research.  The department shall make awards based on the recommendations of the independent review committee."



Explanation

(This amendment provides $2.5 million from the general fund each year and establishes a Pediatric Cancer Research Fund to provide grants to pediatric cancer treatment centers in order to promote a greater level of pediatric cancer research it the Commonwealth. The Virginia Department of Health would accept proposals through an independent review committee and then make awards based on those recommendations to treatment centers.)