BILL NUMBER: AB 480	CHAPTERED  09/05/01

	CHAPTER  246
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 5, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 5, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 20, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 21, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 5, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 17, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Robert Pacheco, Pescetti, and Koretz

   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Bates, Chavez, Diaz, Havice, Leach,
Negrete McLeod, Salinas, Steinberg, and Wesson)
   (Coauthor:  Senator Oller)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2001

   An act to amend Section 104180 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to cancer, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 480, Robert Pacheco.  Cancer.
   Under existing law, the State Department of Health Services is
responsible for the administration and oversight of various health
care programs.
   Existing law establishes the Cancer Research Fund in the State
Treasury, and provides that the moneys in the fund shall be available
for expenditure by the department.  Existing law also provides that
it is the intent of the Legislature that after the initial
appropriation to the fund, that the fund be enhanced by annual
allocations as determined in subsequent budget acts.
   This bill would provide that the fund consist of money accepted by
the department from grants and donations from private entities and
of public moneys transferred to the fund.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 104180 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   104180.  The Cancer Research Fund is hereby established in the
State Treasury.  Moneys in the fund shall be available for
expenditure by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
  The fund shall consist of money accepted by the department from
grants and donations from private entities and of public moneys
transferred to the fund.  It is the intent of the Legislature that,
after the initial appropriation made pursuant to Assembly Bill 1554
of the 1997-98 Regular Session, the fund be enhanced by annual
allocations determined in subsequent budget acts.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to implement and support programs for cancer research,
and thus to reduce pain and suffering and address a pressing health
need at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act
take effect immediately.