HOUSE BILL 353

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Gail Chasey

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE VETERANS' SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO FUND A CLINICAL STUDY FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF LUNG CANCER.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--One million three hundred thousand dollars ($1,300,000) is appropriated from the tobacco settlement program fund to the veterans' services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2008 to contract with an organization for a clinical study validating diagnostic technology for the early detection of lung cancer using an inexpensive, non-invasive test developed in New Mexico. The funding will support a longitudinal study to be administered by the veterans' services department, available for up to two thousand five hundred veterans living in New Mexico. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall revert to the tobacco settlement program fund.

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