Bill Text: NJ A1933 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands NJ Cancer Education and Early Detection Program in DHSS to include treatment for colorectal and prostate cancers; appropriates $450,000.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-08 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee [A1933 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A1933-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman HERB CONAWAY, JR.
District 7 (Burlington and Camden)
SYNOPSIS
Expands NJ Cancer Education and Early Detection Program in DHSS to include treatment for colorectal and prostate cancers; appropriates $450,000.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection Program and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Department of Health and Senior Services shall include treatment for colorectal and prostate cancer among the services that are provided to persons eligible for the New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection Program in the department.
2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Senior Services $450,000 to fund the cost of providing treatment for colorectal and prostate cancer to persons who are eligible for the New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection Program in the department.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to include treatment for colorectal and prostate cancers among the services that are provided to persons eligible for the New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection Program (NJCEED), and appropriates $450,000 to the department for this treatment. Currently, NJCEED provides comprehensive outreach, education and screening services for breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate cancers to persons who are at or below 250% of the federal poverty level and are uninsured or under-insured. This bill would provide State funds for treatment of those eligible persons who are screened through NJCEED for colorectal and prostate cancers.
NJCEED already provides treatment services for women with breast or cervical cancer who are screened through NJCEED; this treatment is provided in connection with the State Medicaid program which administers the federal "Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000."
