BILL ANALYSIS SB 164 Page 1 Date of Hearing: August 22, 2007, 2007 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Mark Leno, Chair SB 164 (Migden) - As Amended: July 17, 2007 Policy Committee: Health Vote: 13-1 Judiciary 7-1 Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: No Reimbursable: SUMMARY This bill implements provisions of SB 1555 (Speier), Chapter 484, Statutes of 2006, concerning the California Birth Defects Monitoring and Biomedical Resources Program. Specifically, this bill: 1)Adds "Biomedical Resources" to the name of the Program. 2)Requires the California Department of Public Health (DPH) to charge investigators a fee for data linkage, storage, retrieval, processing, data entry, reinventory, and shipping of blood or its components. 3)Requires specified investigators to enter into a written agreement that requires the investigator to pay: a) 5% of net revenues above $250,000 related to samples. b) 25% of net licensing revenues above $250,000 related to drugs. 4)Creates the continuously appropriated Birth Defects Minotoring and Biomendical Resources Program Investigation Account into which the fees established in #3 above are to be deposited. 5)Asd 6)Asd 7)asd FISCAL EFFECT > COMMENTS SB 164 Page 2 1)Rationale . This bill, sponsored by the March of Dimes 2)California Birth Defects Monitoring Program . The California Birth Defects Monitoring Program - a public health program - is funded through the March of Dimes Foundation and the Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health division of the California Department of Health Services. The CBDMP was created in 1982 in five Bay Area counties and has since expanded statewide to track birth defect rates and trends through a database that contains medical and demographic information from over 4.6 million births. The CBDMP identifies high-risk groups and possible risk and protective factors, investigates birth defects clusters, targets surveillance around sites of environmental concern, and conducts large-scale studies focusing on particular birth defects or environmental exposures. In 1990, CBDMP received $7.7 million in state funds (General Fund). Total 2004-05 and 2005-06 funding for CBDMP is $3.8 million, as follows: General Fund: $2,367,000 Title V funds: $1,200,000 Tobacco Related Disease Research Fund (competitive grant): $167,556 University of California (mental retardation grant): $76,281 3) Related Legislation . Analysis Prepared by : Mary Ader / APPR. / (916) 319-2081