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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Jennings
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2/5/2007
3/2/2007 HB
SHORT TITLE UNM Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research
SB 532/a SFl
ANALYST Schuss
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
$3,215.3 Non-Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Duplicates HB 592
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
Responses Received From
New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED)
Department of Health (DOH)
SUMMARY
Synopsis of SFl Amendment
The first amendment proposed by the Senate Floor adds the University of Washington School of
Medicine and other medical research universities or institutions that will also work on the
proposed inflammatory breast cancer research.
Synopsis of Original Bill
Senate Bill 532 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 non-recurring expense to the general
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fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY10 shall revert to the
general fund.
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, SB 532 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 HB 592
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