05/07/1997 09:09 AM Senate HES

                                                                               
          HJR 29 FUNDING FOR PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH                         
                                                                              
 Number 001                                                                    
                                                                               
  CHAIRMAN WILKEN  called the Senate Health, Education & Social                
 Services Committee (HES) to order at 9:09 a.m. and announced that             
  HJR 29  would be the first order of business before the committee.           
                                                                               
  REPRESENTATIVE ELTON , Prime Sponsor, explained that HJR 29 would            
 request that President Clinton increase funding for prostate cancer           
 research.  The resolution was suggested by a friend who has been              
 diagnosed with prostate cancer and is being treated.  Over 330,000            
 men are diagnosed each year with prostate cancer.  Currently, over            
 nine million American men suffer from prostate cancer and 48,000              
 die each year from prostate cancer.  Representative Elton discussed           
 the signature drive by the National Prostate Cancer Coalition which           
 hopes to present President Clinton with its signatures on Father's            
 Day this year.                                                                
                                                                               
  SENATOR GREEN  commented that the single focus of HJR 29 was                 
 troublesome because there are many diseases that could use help               
 with research funding.                                                        
                                                                               
  SENATOR WARD  moved to report HJR 29 out of committee with                   
 individual recommendations and accompanying fiscal notes.  Without            
 objection, it was so ordered.