A. The health research fund is established. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the department shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, all monies it administers pursuant to section 36-773 into the health research fund. The department shall administer the fund.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-275

  • Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-271
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Disease: means a condition or disorder that causes the human body to deviate from its normal or healthy state and that has no known general cure or adequate medically accepted treatment. See Arizona Laws 36-271
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Medically accepted treatment: means a methodology or protocol recognized by the American medical association, the American college of surgeons or the national cancer institute or taught by an approved school of medicine as defined in section 32-1401 as a treatment that results in the restoration of the human body to a normal or healthy state. See Arizona Laws 36-271

B. Except as provided by section 36-276, the department shall only expend monies in the health research fund for research on the prevention and treatment of tobacco related disease and addiction and research into the causes, epidemiology and diagnosis of diseases, the formulation of cures, the medically accepted treatment or the prevention of diseases including new drug discovery and development, and may include behavioral studies and attitude assessments, and for expenses incurred by the department in carrying out the purposes described in section 36-773.

C. Monies in the health research fund are exempt from section 35-190 relating to lapsing of appropriations.

 

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