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          Date of Hearing:   May 11, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                     AB 1329 (Davis) - As Amended:  May 5, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              HealthVote:19-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill changes the funding mechanism for the California 
          Cancer Registry (CCR) from a contract to a competitive grant 
          process. 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible state fiscal effect.  

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  . The sponsors of this bill, the Public Health 
            Institute (PHI) and the University of Southern California 
            (USC), indicate that the Department of Public Health has been 
            denied permission to re-bid a contract to administer the CCR. 
            The current DPH state contract to administer the CCR expires 
            on June 30, 2012.  According to the author and sponsors, this 
            bill would remedy this administrative obstacle by allowing DPH 
            the flexibility to maintain the competitive process through a 
            grant instead, which will protect the flow of federal dollars 
            and the integrity of the operations of the CCR.

           2)Background  .  CCR is a collaborative effort among DPH, the PHI 
            (the current non-profit contractor operating the central 
            registry), regional registries, health care providers, cancer 
            registrants, and cancer researchers.  Since 1988, the CCR has 
            collected data on over 3.8 million cases of cancer. The CCR 
            provides aggregated cancer data for statistical purposes, and 
            maintains a web-based inquiry tool where the public can access 
            cancer data.  The CCR also monitors the incidence and 
            mortality of specific cancers over time, analyzes different 
            cancer risks, and analyzes cancer by demographic and social 








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            characteristics of the population.  DPH contracts with a 
            central registry, currently the PHI, and sub-contracts with 
            regional registries. 


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916) 319-2081