Bill Text: NY A09428 | 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; makes an appropriation therefor.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - referred to health [A09428 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09428-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 3, 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; and making an
          appropriation therefor
          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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