PRINTER'S NO. 2372
No. 1829 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY MICOZZIE, RAYMOND, KENNEY, CIVERA, ARTY, DURHAM,
FLICK, FREIND, PITTS AND GANNON, OCTOBER 23, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND WELFARE, OCTOBER 23, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," providing for research in
21 the area of Alzheimer's disease in the Department of Health;
22 and providing for funding.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
26 as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
27 section to read:
1 Section 2122. Research Program for Alzheimer's Disease.--(a)
2 The Department of Health shall have the power and its duties
3 shall be to establish a program under which grants for research
4 into Alzheimer's disease are distributed.
5 (b) Research into Alzheimer's disease shall include, but not
6 be limited to:
7 (1) Biomedical research to investigate the primary cause and
8 potential cure or treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
9 (2) Clinical research to improve diagnosis, treatment,
10 restoration of loss function and patient management and care
11 systems for Alzheimer's disease.
12 (3) Psychological research to improve family and patient
13 coping skills and research to improve service delivery forms and
14 forms of care.
15 (4) Policy analysis research to suggest more cost-effective
16 methods of financing care for Alzheimer's disease victims.
17 (c) No grant shall be committed or distributed until the
18 department has received satisfactory evidence of the existence
19 of private funds which are to be used in the project for which
20 the grant is to be allocated. No grant shall exceed the amount
21 of private funds available for such project.
22 (d) The source of the grants shall be funds obtained by the
23 Commonwealth as a result of the act of August 26, 1971 (P.L.351,
24 No.91), known as the "State Lottery Law," and shall be available
25 as follows:
26 (1) The Secretary of Revenue shall certify the amount of
27 money which is needed to finance other programs required to be
28 administered under the laws deriving fines from the "State
29 Lottery Law" on the effective date of this act.
30 (2) Any funds in excess of this certified figure may be used
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1 for grants for this program up to a maximum of one million
2 dollars ($1,000,000) in each fiscal year.
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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