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Peter T. King

Tagged in: Breast cancer, Budgets, Checkoff, Federal aid to research, Government trust funds, Income tax, Medical care, Medical research, Medicine, Prostate cancer

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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish and provide a checkoff for a Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund, and for other purposes.

9/14/2007--Introduced.

Taxpayers' Cancer Research Funding Act of 2007- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate on their tax returns a $5 contribution to the Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund ($10 for joint returns).

Establishes in the Treasury the Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund to award grants for breast or prostate cancer research.
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  • 09/14/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  • 09/14/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
  • 09/14/2007 - Referred to House Ways and Means
  • 09/14/2007 - Referred to House Energy and Commerce
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H.R.3537 Introduced in House09/16/2007