This bill requires that states receiving federal help to make and run comprehensive cancer control plans include at least two pediatric cancer experts on their state cancer control coalitions. It directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create the Cancer Control Plan Pediatric Cancer Advisory Committee. The committee will include representatives from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the CDC’s National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, a State program that gets title V assistance, a State program that gets HRSA assistance, and two individuals who may be nonprofit pediatric cancer staff, pediatric cancer experts or care team members, pediatric cancer survivors, or caregivers. The committee must develop resources, best practices, and recommendations on pediatric cancer for state plans; make recommendations on using funds to help pediatric cancer patients (including HRSA and title V funds); develop best practices for adolescent and young adult cancer care; meet annually with state coalition representatives; report to Congress and publish its findings within two years of its first meeting; and will sunset two years after that first meeting. The bill also adds a permitted use for Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grants to meet pediatric-specific initiatives within CDC comprehensive cancer control programs and to implement the committee’s recommendations.
No publicly available information on costs, budget estimates, or new appropriations is included in the bill text. The bill directs use of existing program authorities and makes certain funding conditional, but does not state dollar amounts.
The bill’s text shows supporters want to ensure pediatric cancer expertise is included in state cancer planning, create a focused advisory group to develop resources and best practices, and allow maternal and child health grant funds to support pediatric cancer initiatives and the advisory committee’s recommendations.
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