Senate Bill 1660

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1660

    By Senator Forman





    32-895-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to health care; providing

  3         intent; creating the Jessie Trice Cancer

  4         Prevention Program within the Department of

  5         Health; providing for funding; providing an

  6         appropriation; providing an effective date.

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  8         WHEREAS, Jessie Trice was a community leader and

  9  life-long advocate of improved health care for the poor, and

10         WHEREAS, Jessie Trice was the first African-American to

11  receive a nursing degree from the University of Miami, and

12         WHEREAS, Jessie Trice was the first African-American to

13  serve as director of the Miami-Dade County Health Department,

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15         WHEREAS, Jessie Trice was the first African-American

16  Chairperson of the Florida State Board of Nursing, and

17         WHEREAS, Jessie Trice was Chief Executive Officer of

18  the Economic Family Health Center, one of Miami's largest

19  community health centers and the largest employer in Liberty

20  City, and

21         WHEREAS, Jessie Trice was the Founder and Chairperson

22  of the Health Choice Network, which has recently been

23  recognized as a model for integrated service delivery of

24  health care to the poor, and

25         WHEREAS, Jessie Trice, after a valiant battle with lung

26  cancer, passed away in October, 1999, NOW, THEREFORE,

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28  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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30         Section 1.  (1)  It is the intent of the Legislature

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  1         (a)  Reduce the rates of illness and death from lung

  2  cancer and other cancers and improve the quality of life among

  3  low-income African-American and Hispanic populations through

  4  increased access to early, effective screening and diagnosis,

  5  education, and treatment programs.

  6         (b)  Create a community church-based disease-prevention

  7  program in conjunction with the Health Choice Network and

  8  other community health centers to build upon the natural

  9  referral and education networks in place within minority

10  communities and to increase access to health service delivery

11  in South Florida.

12         (c)  Establish a funding to build upon local private

13  participation to sustain the operation of the program.

14         (2)(a)  There is created the Jessie Trice Cancer

15  Prevention Program, to be located, for administrative

16  purposes, within the Department of Health, and operated from

17  the community health centers within the Health Choice Network

18  in South Florida.

19         (b)  Funding will be provided to develop contracts with

20  community health centers and local community church-based

21  education programs to provide cancer screening, diagnosis,

22  education, and treatment services to minority populations

23  throughout the state. Pilot programs will be initially created

24  in the communities of Goulds, Naranja, Coconut Grove, Liberty

25  City, and East Little Havana in Dade County and Dunbar in Lee

26  County.

27         Section 2.  The sum of $750,000 is annually

28  appropriated from the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund to the

29  Department of Health to fund the program created by this act.

30         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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  3    Creates the Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Program and
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