Bill Text: NY S06623 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06623 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06623-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6623--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 10, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        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:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11035-02-1
        S. 6623--A                          2

     1    §  4.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
     2  have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2007 [and shall
     3  expire and be deemed repealed December 31, 2025].
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.