House of Representatives

HB 2595

education 2000; revisions

Sponsor: Representative Huppenthal

 

W/D

Committee on Education

DPA

S/E

Committee on Health

W/D

Committee on Appropriations

DPA

Caucus and COW

 

X

As Passed the House

HB 2595 requires the Arizona State Board of Education to adopt rules for evaluating school performance and prescribes ratings.

 

The Health Committee adopted the following strike-everything amendment:

Current law requires the Department of Health Services [DHS] to administer and deposit five cents of each Tobacco Tax and Health Care Fund dollar into the Health Research Account for research on preventing and treating tobacco-related disease and addiction.  The monies deposited in the Health Research Account must be used to supplement legislatively appropriated monies for health research purposes and not to supplant legislatively appropriated monies.  DHS deposits monies from the Health Research Account into the Health Research Fund [Fund] and directs the Arizona Disease Control Research Commission [Commission] to administer the fund.  The Commission shall use the monies in the Fund for research on the prevention and treatment of tobacco related diseases and addictions, including behavioral studies. 

 

Provisions

 

¨      Research into the causes, the epidemiology and diagnosis, the formulation of cures, the medically accepted treatment or the prevention of diseases including new drug discovery and development.

 

The Health Committee strike-everything amendment was adopted in the Committee of the Whole.

 

HB 2595 passed the House of Representatives as amended.

 

 

 

 

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45th Legislature                                                                                                                                

First Regular Session                                   2                                                              May 9, 2001

 

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