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                                                                  SB 164
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          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.
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           FISCAL EFFECT  

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           COMMENTS  









                                                                  SB 164
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           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