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

SPONSOR Robinson

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/1/07

HB

SHORT TITLE

Community-Based Cancer Patient Support

SB 382

ANALYST Geisler

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$50.0

Recurring

General

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to: HB 263, HB 303, SB 357

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Department of Health (DOH)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 382 would appropriate $50,000 from the general fund to be spent in FY08 by the

Department of Health (DOH) to provide for comprehensive, community-based cancer patient

support services including education, patient library services, one-to-one matching with cancer

veterans, survivorship support groups, and an annual statewide survivorship conference. Any

unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY08 would revert to the general

fund.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

DOH notes that the appropriation proposed by this bill is not included in the executive budget

recommendation. Also, DOH provides that existing staff and resources of the DOH Cancer

Section could absorb costs associated with implementing the activities in SB 382.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

DOH notes that according to the New Mexico Tumor Registry, an estimated 8,000 new cases of

cancer were diagnosed in NM in 2006. Approximately 54,000 people in the state are currently

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living with a diagnosis of cancer. For every person living through cancer, an average of three

other people related to the patient are also affected by the diagnosis, perhaps as many as 216,000

persons in NM.

RELATIONSHIP

SB 382 relates to:

• HB 263, which would appropriate $600,000 to the Department of Finance and Administration

for expenditure in FY 2008 for St. Vincent Regional Medical Center (SVRMC) for the creation

of a comprehensive breast cancer center to serve the women of north central New Mexico.

• HB 303, which would appropriate $1,300,000 from the tobacco settlement program fund to the

Veterans’ Services Department for FY 2008 to contract with an organization for a clinical study

validating diagnostic technology for the early detection of lung cancer using an inexpensive,

non-invasive test developed in New Mexico.

• SB 357, which would appropriate $250,000 from the general fund to DOH to be spent in FY08

through FY10 to provide a cancer patient navigation program.

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