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Jump to full article: Saipan Tribune (mp), 2009-05-08
Author: Haidee V. Eugenio Reporter
Intro: Gov. Benigno R. Fitial on Wednesday signed into law a bill appropriating over $1.4 million of tobacco control funds for fiscal year 2009.
House Bill 16-129, introduced by Rep. Joseph Deleon Guerrero and eight other House members, is now Public Law 16-39.
Fitial said while the measure appropriates money to worthwhile causes from the Tobacco Control Fund, it passed the House of Representatives on Oct. 31, 2008 and the Senate on April 15, 2009, six months into FY 2009. . . .
The bill provides $900,000 to the Department of Public Health's six programs: the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program ($535,000); the Community Guidance Center's Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services ($250,000); mammogram film reading and interpretation ($39,000); the purchase of a network-attached storage for the Cancer Registry ($1,000); the Commonwea . . .
The bill also gives $75,000 each to Rota and Tinian's Tobacco and Substance Abuse prevention programs.
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