Melanoma Research Act of 2012

Melanoma Research Act of 2012 - Establishes the Skin Cancer Research Fund, into which amounts received from taxes on indoor tanning services shall be deposited and from which amounts shall be available exclusively for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research relating to skin cancer.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5716 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5716

 To establish a Skin Cancer Research Fund to increase funding for the 
conduct or support of research relating to skin cancer by the National 
                         Institutes of Health.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2012

  Mr. Bilbray (for himself and Mrs. Maloney) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and 
  in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish a Skin Cancer Research Fund to increase funding for the 
conduct or support of research relating to skin cancer by the National 
                         Institutes of Health.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Melanoma Research Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. SKIN CANCER RESEARCH FUND.

    (a) Creation of Fund.--There is established in the Treasury of the 
United States a trust fund to be known as the ``Skin Cancer Research 
Fund'', consisting of such amounts as may be deposited into the Skin 
Cancer Research Fund under subsection (b).
    (b) Transfer to Fund of Certain Amounts.--For each of fiscal years 
2013 through 2017, there shall be deposited into the Skin Cancer 
Research Fund amounts equivalent to the taxes received in the Treasury 
during the respective fiscal year under section 5000B of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 5000B; relating to taxes on indoor 
tanning services).
    (c) Limitation on Availability of Amounts in Fund.--Amounts in the 
Skin Cancer Research Fund shall be available, as provided by 
appropriation Acts, exclusively for the conduct or support of research 
relating to skin cancer by the National Institutes of Health under 
title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 281 et seq.).
    (d) Definition.--In this Act, the term ``skin cancer'' means any of 
the following:
            (1) Actinic keratosis.
            (2) Basal cell carcinoma.
            (3) Melanoma.
            (4) Kaposi's sarcoma.
            (5) Squamous cell carcinoma.
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