Bill Text: MO HB2278 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the maximum amount that the University of Missouri Board of Curators may annually award for a grant for the investigation of spinal cord injuries and other specific disease processes

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-14 - Referred: Higher Education (H) [HB2278 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2010-HB2278-Introduced.html

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SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 2278

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES HOBBS (Sponsor) AND KELLY (Co-sponsor).

5224L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 172.794, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the University of Missouri board of curators.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 172.794, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 172.794, to read as follows:

            172.794. 1. The board of curators, with the recommendations of the advisory board, shall award funds to selected investigators in accordance with the following provisions:

            (1) Individual awards shall not exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars per year and shall expire at the end of one or two years, depending on the recommendation of the advisory board for each award;

            (2) Costs for overhead of the grantee individual or institution shall not be allowed;

            (3) Investigators shall be affiliated with a public or private educational, health care, voluntary health association or research institution which shall specify the institutional official responsible for administration of the award;

            (4) Awards shall be used to obtain preliminary data to test hypotheses and to enable investigators to develop subsequent competitive applications for long-term funding from other sources; and

            (5) The research project shall be conducted in Missouri.

            2. Funds appropriated for but not awarded to research projects in any given year shall be included in the board of curators' appropriations request for research projects in the succeeding year.

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