§ 13-1112. Local Public Health Cancer Grant -- Submission of program inventory; base-year funding

   (a) Applicability of section. -- Except as provided in § 13-1115(f) of this subtitle, this section does not apply in Baltimore City.

(b) Submission of program inventory. --

   (1) Before receiving a Local Public Health Cancer Grant, a local health officer shall submit to the Department an inventory of all existing publicly funded cancer prevention, education, screening, and treatment programs that relate to targeted cancers in the county that were identified under § 13-1109(c) of this subtitle.

   (2) The inventory shall specify the amount of county funds that are being spent on each of the programs included in the inventory.

(c) Base-year funding -- In general. -- The level of funding specified under subsection (b)(2) of this section shall be the county's base-year funding for cancer prevention, education, screening, and treatment programs that relate to targeted cancers.

(d) Base-year funding -- Grant may not supplant. -- A Local Public Health Cancer Grant may not be used to supplant a county's base-year funding for cancer prevention, education, screening, and treatment programs that relate to targeted cancers.

(e) Base-year funding -- Spending before Grant distribution. -- The Department may not distribute a Local Public Health Cancer Grant to a county unless the Department determines that the county will spend, in the applicable fiscal year, at least its base-year funding for cancer prevention, education, screening, and treatment programs that relate to targeted cancers.

HISTORY: 2000, chs. 17, 18; 2001, ch. 29, § 1.