Bill Text: TX SB1421 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 1421 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the awarding of grants provided by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB1421 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1421-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 1421




	AN ACT
	relating to the awarding of grants provided by the Cancer
	Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 102.256, Health and
	Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(a) The oversight committee shall establish standards that
	require all grant awards to be subject to an intellectual property
	agreement that allows the state to collect royalties, income, and
	other benefits, including interest or proceeds resulting from
	securities and equity ownership, realized as a result of projects
	undertaken with money awarded under Subchapter E.
	SECTION 2. Section 102.262, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 102.262. PUBLIC INFORMATION. (a) The following
	information is public information and may be disclosed under
	Chapter 552, Government Code:
	(1) the applicant's name and address;
	(2) the amount of funding applied for;
	(3) the type of cancer to be addressed under the
	proposal; and
	(4) any other information designated by the institute
	with the consent of the grant applicant.
	(b) In order to protect the actual or potential value of
	information submitted to the institute by an applicant for or
	recipient of an institute grant, the following information
	submitted by such applicant or recipient is confidential and is not
	subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code, or any
	other law:
	(1) all information, except as provided in Subsection
	(a), that is contained in a grant award contract between the
	institute and a grant recipient, relating to a product, device, or
	process, the application or use of such a product, device, or
	process, and all technological and scientific information,
	including computer programs, developed in whole or in part by an
	applicant for or recipient of an institute grant, regardless of
	whether patentable or capable of being registered under copyright
	or trademark laws, that has a potential for being sold, traded, or
	licensed for a fee; and
	(2) the plans, specifications, blueprints, and
	designs, including related proprietary information, of a
	scientific research and development facility.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1421 passed the Senate on
	April 26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1421 passed the House on
	May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, one
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor