Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 1826
                        Barcode 243074
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11  The Committee on Health Care (Saunders) recommended the
12  following substitute for amendment (525986):
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14         Senate Amendment 
15         On page 19, lines 15-22, delete those lines
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17  and insert:  Program pursuant to s. 215.5602, Florida
18  Statutes. From these funds up to $250,000 shall be available
19  for the operating costs of the Florida Centers for Universal
20  Research to Eradicate Disease.
21         (2)  The sum of $9 million is appropriated from the
22  General Revenue Fund to the Biomedical Research Trust Fund
23  within the Department of Health for purposes of the William G.
24  "Bill" Bankhead, Jr., and David Coley Cancer Research Program
25  for the 2006-2007 fiscal year, and shall be distributed
26  pursuant to s. 381.922, Florida Statutes, to provide grants to
27  researchers seeking cures for cancer, with emphasis given to
28  the goals enumerated in s. 381.921, Florida Statutes. From the
29  total funds appropriated, an amount of up to 10 percent may be
30  used for administrative expenses.
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