Bill Text: NY A09246 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the lymphedema and lymphatic diseases research grants program; provides such grants, not to exceed $50,000, would be awarded on a competitive basis to biomedical research institutions conducting direct research related to lymphedema and lymphatic diseases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-04 - referred to health [A09246 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09246-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9246
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          lymphedema  and  lymphatic  diseases  research  grants program; and to
          amend the state finance law, in relation to  creating  the  lymphedema
          and lymphatic diseases research and education fund
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  207-a to read as follows:
     3    § 207-a. Lymphedema and lymphatic diseases research grants program. 1.
     4  The  department  shall,  within  available appropriations, establish the
     5  lymphedema and lymphatic diseases  research  grants  program,  hereafter
     6  "grants  program."    Such grants program funds shall be used to provide
     7  financial assistance in the form of grants, not to exceed fifty thousand
     8  dollars per grant, to New York state  biomedical  research  institutions
     9  for working capital to further new and emerging research and development
    10  for  the  diagnosis  and treatment of lymphedema and lymphatic diseases.
    11  Such grants shall be  awarded  on  a  competitive  basis  to  biomedical
    12  research institutions responding to requests for proposals issued by the
    13  foundation when funds are appropriated.
    14    2.  (a)  "Biomedical research institution" shall mean a not-for-profit
    15  university, college, hospital, private or  federal  research  laboratory
    16  located  in  New  York  state,  or  a  consortium of such entities, that
    17  conducts an intensive and ongoing program of  research  and  development
    18  directly related to lymphedema and/or lymphatic diseases research.
    19    (b)  "Lymphedema" shall mean an accumulation of lymphatic fluid in the
    20  interstitial tissue that causes swelling, most often in the arms  and/or
    21  legs, and occasionally in other parts of the body, from any cause.
    22    (c)  "Lymphatic diseases" shall include but not be limited to:  insuf-
    23  ficiency of lymphatic circulatory function  (to  include  all  forms  of
    24  lymphedema),  lipedema,  complex  congenital  diseases  of the lymphatic
    25  vasculature,  including  lymphangiomatosis,   lymphangioleio-myomatosis,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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