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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="13-1004" title_number="13" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Beginning in fiscal year 2007 and in every second year thereafter, the Department shall conduct a Tobacco Study which shall measure the same factors that are set forth in § 13–1003(c) of this subtitle and use the same methodology or model that was used for the Baseline Tobacco Study.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>To carry out the evaluation and surveillance functions of this subtitle, the Department may conduct any other tobacco study measuring the factors set forth in § 13–1003(c) of this subtitle and using a methodology or model that is consistent with but need not be identical to that used to conduct the Baseline Tobacco Study.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraphs (2) through (4) of this subsection, the Department shall contract with a higher education institution or private entity to conduct the Biennial Tobacco Study.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Department shall issue a request for proposal to select the entity that will conduct the Biennial Tobacco Study.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Department may contract with an entity to conduct one or more biennial tobacco studies.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Department shall use the criteria established in § 13–1003(e)(5) of this subtitle as a guide in administering the request for proposal process.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>On or before May 31 of each even–numbered fiscal year, beginning in fiscal year 2008, the Department shall submit a report to the Governor and, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, the General Assembly on:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The results of the Biennial Tobacco Study; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Beginning in fiscal year 2024, a State– and county–level data summary and trends report on data collected under § 7–420 of the Education Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
