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                          HOUSE BILL 2995

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Representatives Cooke, Kastama, Butler, Sehlin, Regala, Sullivan, Dickerson, Kenney, Scott, Wood, Kessler, Linville, Cody, Conway, Keiser, Dunshee, Constantine, Lantz, Cole, Johnson, Ogden, Anderson, Gardner and O'Brien

Read first time 01/26/98.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Funding breast and cervical cancer screening for low-income women.

    AN ACT Relating to funding breast and cervical cancer screening for low-income women; and making an appropriation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, from the general fund to the department of health for the purpose of making breast and cervical cancer screening available to low-income women by replacing federal revenue that was lost due to a change in the federal funding formula.

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