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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="13-1102" title_number="13" title_name="Miscellaneous Health Care Programs" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>There is a Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program in the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The purpose of the Program is to coordinate the State’s use of the Cigarette Restitution Fund so as to create a lasting legacy of public health initiatives that reduce mortality and morbidity rates for cancer and tobacco–related diseases in the State and otherwise benefit the health and welfare of the State’s residents.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Program consists of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A Surveillance and Evaluation Component;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A Statewide Public Health Component;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A Local Public Health Component;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A Statewide Academic Health Center Component; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>An Administrative Component.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>To initiate the Program, the Department shall identify the types of cancers that will be targeted under the Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Program shall be funded as provided in the State budget with money from the Cigarette Restitution Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Legislative Auditor is authorized to audit the appropriations and expenditures made for the purpose of implementing the Program, including the use of any funds received by a person under any component of the Program.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The annual budget bill shall specify the amount of funding that is allocated to each component of the Program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection, money that is allocated to a component of the Program in the State budget:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>May only be expended for the purpose for which it is appropriated; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>May not be transferred to any other component in the Program, any other program in the Department, or any unit of State government.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Except as provided in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, the Department may transfer a maximum of 10% of the total amount of money that is allocated to the Program among the components of the Program if the transfer is specifically authorized in the annual budget bill as enacted.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The Department may not transfer funds to the Statewide Academic Health Center Component or the Administrative Component from any other component of the Program.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>If the Department transfers any money among the components of the Program as authorized under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, the Department shall report the transfer to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, Senate Finance Committee, House Appropriations Committee, and House Health Committee within 60 days after the transfer.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The Department may transfer money that is allocated to a component of the Program in the State budget to another program in the Department or another unit of State government if the transfer is specifically authorized by:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>A provision of this subtitle; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>A provision of the annual budget bill as enacted that relates specifically to the transfer of funds from that component.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Money that is allocated to a component of the Program in the State budget that remains unspent and unobligated at the end of the applicable fiscal year shall revert to the Cigarette Restitution Fund.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Money that reverts to the Cigarette Restitution Fund under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be used to fund the Program in the fiscal year to which the next annual budget bill relates.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Governor shall include in the next annual budget bill an appropriation for the Program that is at least equal to the amount of money that reverted to the Cigarette Restitution Fund under paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>No later than January 31 of each year, the Department shall report to the Governor and, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, Senate Finance Committee, House Appropriations Committee, and House Health Committee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The amount of money that was allocated to each component of the Program during:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The prior fiscal year that remained unspent and unobligated at the end of that year; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The current fiscal year that remained unspent and unobligated as of December 31 of the preceding calendar year; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The amount of money that was distributed to a county as a Local Public Health Cancer Grant during:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The prior fiscal year that remained unspent and unobligated at the end of that year; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The current fiscal year that remained unspent and unobligated as of December 31 of the preceding calendar year.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>The Department shall adopt regulations that establish the criteria that the Department will use to determine whether, for the purpose of qualifying as an uninsured individual under § 13–1101(hh) of this subtitle, an individual has the financial means to pay for appropriate treatment.</text>
  </level>
</section>
