Bill Text: TX HB1952 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to grants awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-28 - Left pending in committee [HB1952 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1952-Introduced.html
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By: Springer | H.B. No. 1952 |
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relating to grants awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research | ||
Institute of Texas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 102.251, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The oversight committee shall issue rules regarding the | ||
procedure for awarding grants to an applicant under this chapter. | ||
The rules must include the following procedures: | ||
(1) a research and prevention programs committee shall | ||
score grant applications and make recommendations to the program | ||
integration committee, established under Section 102.264, and the | ||
oversight committee regarding the award of cancer research and | ||
prevention grants, including a prioritized list that: | ||
(A) ranks the grant applications in the order the | ||
committee determines applications should be funded; and | ||
(B) includes information explaining how each | ||
grant application on the list meets the research and prevention | ||
programs committee's standards for recommendation; | ||
(2) the program integration committee shall submit to | ||
the oversight committee a list of grant applications the program | ||
integration committee by majority vote approved for recommendation | ||
that: | ||
(A) includes documentation on the factors the | ||
program integration committee considered in making the grant | ||
recommendations; | ||
(B) is substantially based on the list submitted | ||
by the research and prevention programs committee under Subdivision | ||
(1); and | ||
(C) to the extent possible, gives priority to | ||
proposals that: | ||
(i) could lead to immediate or long-term | ||
medical and scientific breakthroughs in the area of cancer | ||
prevention or cures for cancer; | ||
(ii) strengthen and enhance fundamental | ||
science in cancer research; | ||
(iii) ensure a comprehensive coordinated | ||
approach to cancer research; | ||
(iv) are interdisciplinary or | ||
interinstitutional; | ||
(v) address federal or other major research | ||
sponsors' priorities in emerging scientific or technology fields in | ||
the area of cancer prevention or cures for cancer; | ||
(vi) are matched with funds available by a | ||
private or nonprofit entity and institution or institutions of | ||
higher education; | ||
(vii) are collaborative between any | ||
combination of private and nonprofit entities, public or private | ||
agencies or institutions in this state, and public or private | ||
institutions outside this state; | ||
(viii) have a demonstrable economic | ||
development benefit to this state; | ||
(ix) enhance research superiority at | ||
institutions of higher education in this state by creating new | ||
research superiority, attracting existing research superiority | ||
from institutions not located in this state and other research | ||
entities, or enhancing existing research superiority by attracting | ||
from outside this state additional researchers and resources; | ||
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increase higher education applied science or technology research | ||
capabilities; and | ||
(xi) address the goals of the Texas Cancer | ||
Plan; and | ||
(3) the institute's chief compliance officer shall | ||
compare each grant application submitted to the institute to a list | ||
of donors from any nonprofit organization established to provide | ||
support to the institute compiled from information made available | ||
under Section 102.262(c) before the application is submitted to a | ||
research and prevention programs committee for review and again | ||
before any grant is awarded to the applicant. | ||
(f) The institute may not award a grant for the purpose of | ||
expediting innovation and product development of a private sector | ||
entity, or to attract, create, or expand a private sector entity. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective | ||
date of this Act, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of | ||
Texas Oversight Committee shall adopt the rules necessary to | ||
implement the changes in law made by this Act. | ||
(b) The changes in law made by this Act apply to a grant | ||
awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of whether the | ||
grant application was submitted before, on, or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |