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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Saavedra

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/5/2007

HB 592

SHORT TITLE UNM Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research

SB

ANALYST Schuss

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$3,215.34

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Duplicates SB 532

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED)

Department of Health (DOH)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 592 appropriates $3,215,340 from the general fund to the Board of Regents of the

University of New Mexico to develop and conduct inflammatory breast cancer research in

conjunction with the inflammatory breast cancer clinic and research program at M.D. Anderson

Cancer Center of the University of Texas.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $3,215,340 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general fund.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY10 shall revert to the

general fund.

House Bill 592 – Page

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SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The Higher Education Department states the following:

According to the National Cancer Institute within the U.S. National Institutes of Health,

inflammatory breast cancer is a rare but very aggressive type of breast cancer where cancer cells

block the lymph vessels in the skin, usually grow rapidly and often spread to other parts of the

body. In October 2006, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center opened the first

clinic in the world dedicated to the treatment and research of inflammatory breast cancer.

According to center news releases, women with IBC are more likely to be misdiagnosed initially,

and ultimately diagnosed after the disease has metastasized. Their goal is to understand why this

disease is different, why it is so resistant to treatment, and ultimately to develop treatment

guidelines and therapies that improve the well-being of women with this type of cancer. This bill

would help fund a collaborative research effort between the UNM Health Sciences Center and

the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

This request was not submitted by the UNM Health Sciences Center to the New Mexico

Higher Education Department for review, and is not included in the department’s funding

recommendation for FY08.

The Department of Health notes that it is estimated that in New Mexico 1,080 women will be

diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 (American Cancer Society, 2007).

PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

According to the Department of Health, HB 592 supports the NM Cancer Council’s Statewide

Comprehensive Cancer Plan 2007-2011: (1) To increase access to, and participation of New

Mexicans in, cancer prevention and therapeutic clinical trials, and in long term follow-up,

survivorship, and epidemiological research studies.

DUPLICATION

Duplicates SB 532

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