SB 137 – Study and Abate Ocular Melanoma/Funds
Primary Senate Sponsors: Sen. Natasha Marcus (D-Mecklenburg)
Summary
This bill appropriates $150,000 for the 2021-2022 fiscal year to be allocated to the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University to study the potential causes of and solutions for abating ocular melanoma in the towns of Huntersville and Cornelius.
This bill also requires the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University to coordinate with the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when conducting the study and to submit a report summarizing the study results to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services no later than December 1, 2022.
Movement
Filed – 2/23/2021