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