BILL NUMBER: AB 429	CHAPTERED  08/01/03

	CHAPTER  140
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 1, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 31, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 17, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 4, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 2, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dymally

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2003

   An act to amend Section 104322 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to cancer.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 429, Dymally.  Prostate cancer:  treatment services.
   Existing law establishes the Prostate Cancer Treatment Program,
administered by the State Department of Health Services, under which
the department is required to award one or more contracts to provide
prostate cancer treatment through private or public nonprofit
organizations, including, but not limited to, community-based
organizations, local health care providers, and the University of
California medical centers.
   This bill would expressly include in the list of private or public
nonprofit organizations the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine
and Science, an affiliate of the David Geffen School of Medicine at
the University of California at Los Angeles.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 104322 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   104322.  (a) (1) The State Department of Health Services shall
develop, expand, and ensure quality prostate cancer treatment for
low-income and uninsured men.
   (2) The department shall award one or more contracts to provide
prostate cancer treatment through private or public nonprofit
organizations, including, but not limited to, community-based
organizations, local health care providers, the University of
California medical centers, and the Charles R. Drew University of
Medicine and Science, an affiliate of the David Geffen School of
Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles.
   (3) The contracts described in paragraph (2) shall not be subject
to Part 2 (commencing with Section 10100) of Division 2 of the Public
Contract Code.
   (b) Treatment provided under this chapter shall be provided to
uninsured and underinsured men with incomes at or below 200 percent
of the federal poverty level.
   (c) The department shall contract for prostate cancer treatment
services only at the level of funding budgeted from state and other
sources during a fiscal year in which the Legislature has
appropriated funds to the department for this purpose.
   (d) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 2.00 of the Budget
Act of 2003 and any other provision of law, commencing with the
2003-04 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, any amount
appropriated to the department for the prostate cancer treatment
program implemented pursuant to this chapter shall be made available,
for purposes of that program, for encumbrance for one fiscal year
beyond the year of appropriation and for expenditure for two fiscal
years beyond the year of encumbrance.