Bill Text: NY A03433 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the continuation of the empire state stem cell board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A03433 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03433-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3433

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SEAWRIGHT, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, REYES, GLICK --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and part H of chapter  58  of  the
          laws  of  2007  amending  the public health law, the  public  officers
          law  and  the state  finance  law relating to establishing the  empire
          state  stem  cell board, in relation to the continuation of the empire
          state stem cell board

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 265-a of the public health law, as
     2  amended  by  section  1  of part M of chapter 57 of the laws of 2021, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. The empire state stem cell board ("board"), comprised of a  funding
     5  committee and an ethics committee, both of which shall be chaired by the
     6  commissioner, is hereby created within the department for the purpose of
     7  administering  the  empire  state stem cell trust fund ("fund"), created
     8  pursuant to section ninety-nine-p of the state finance law. The board is
     9  hereby empowered, subject to annual  appropriations  and  other  funding
    10  authorized or made available, to make grants to basic, applied, transla-
    11  tional  or  other  research and development activities that will advance
    12  scientific  discoveries  in  fields  related  to  stem  cell   biology[;
    13  provided,  however, that the board shall not make any grants on or after
    14  April first, two thousand twenty-one].
    15    § 2. Section 4 of part H of chapter 58 of the laws  of  2007  amending
    16  the public health law, the public officers law and the state finance law
    17  relating to establishing the empire state stem cell board, as amended by
    18  section  2  of  part  M of chapter 57 of the laws of 2021, is amended to
    19  read as follows:
    20    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
    21  have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2007 [and shall
    22  expire and be deemed repealed December 31, 2025].
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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