A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should declare lung cancer a public health priority and should implement a comprehensive interagency program that will reduce lung cancer mortality by at least 50 percent by 2015.
Latest action · May 2, 2006 Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text of measure as passed Senate: CR H3918)
Progress
Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A simple resolution is the business of one chamber alone: it is not sent to the other chamber or to the President, and does not become law.
- IntroducedMar 28, 2006
- Agreed to in SenateMay 2, 2006
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Urges the President to: (1) declare lung cancer a public health priority and immediately lead a coordinated effort to reduce the mortality rate of lung cancer by 50% by 2015; (2) direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase funding for lung cancer research; (3) direct the Secretary of Defense to develop a lung cancer screening and disease management program among members of the Armed Forces and veterans and diagnostic programs for the early detection of lung cancer; (4) appoint the Lung Cancer Scientific and Medical Advisory Committee; and (5) convene a National Lung Cancer Public Health Policy Board to oversee and coordinate all efforts to reduce the lung cancer mortality rate.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 28, 2006 to Mar 30, 2006, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Mar 28, 2006 |
| R-OH | Mike DeWine | Mar 30, 2006 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 2, 2006Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(text of measure as passed Senate: CR H3918)
- May 2, 2006Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text of measure as passed Senate: CR H3918)
- May 2, 2006Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3918)
- May 2, 2006Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S3918)
- Mar 28, 2006Introduced in Senate
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HRES 739 | Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should declare lung cancer a public health priority and should implement a comprehensive inter-agency program that will reduce lung cancer mortality by at least 50 percent by 2015. | Related bill | Apr 19, 2006 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Case management
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Chemotherapy
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug abuse
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to research
- Federal officials
- Government Operations and Politics
- Graduate education
- Health
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Imaging systems in medicine
- Lung cancer
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Medical statistics
- Medical technology
- Medical tests
- Medicare
- Military medicine
- Mortality
- Pharmaceutical research
- Quality of care
- Research centers
- Research grants
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Smoking
- Social Welfare
- Surgery
- Tobacco
- Veterans' medical care
- Vital statistics
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 2, 2006Agreed to Senate
- Mar 28, 2006Introduced in Senate
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