(a)  The department shall grant a minimum of 65 percent of any fiscal year appropriation that is awarded for research to cancer research proposals directly researching gender-specific cancers.

(b)  Any amount of funding for gender-specific cancer research for any fiscal year, to the extent the amount is below the threshold minimum allocation for any fiscal year established pursuant to subdivision (a), shall be carried forward, upon approval of the council for the following fiscal year or years for gender-specific cancer research, to the extent allowed by the limitations on the appropriated funds subject to that allocation. Funding allocations carried over from any fiscal year under this subdivision shall be in addition to the funding allocation for gender-specific cancer research for fiscal years to which the additional allocation is transferred pursuant to this subdivision.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 104182.7

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.

(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 751, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2000.)

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