Bill Text: TX SB228 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to reporting requirements for institutions of higher education conducting human stem cell research.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-18 - Left pending in committee [SB228 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB228-Engrossed.html
| By: Nelson, Nichols | S.B. No. 228 | |
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| relating to reporting requirements for institutions of higher | ||
| education conducting human stem cell research. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subsection (h), Section 61.051, Education Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (h) The board shall make continuing studies of the needs of | ||
| the state for research and designate the institutions of higher | ||
| education to perform research as needed. The board shall also | ||
| maintain an inventory of all institutional and programmatic | ||
| research activities being conducted by the various institutions, | ||
| whether state-financed or not. Once a year, on dates prescribed by | ||
| the board, each institution of higher education shall report to the | ||
| board all research conducted at that institution during the last | ||
| preceding year. Each institution's report must include the amounts | ||
| spent by the institution on human embryonic stem cell research and | ||
| adult stem cell research during the year covered by the report and | ||
| the source of the funding for that research. All reports required | ||
| by this subsection shall be made subject to the limitations imposed | ||
| by security regulations governing defense contracts for research. | ||
| Not later than January 1 of each year, the board shall submit to the | ||
| legislature information regarding human stem cell research | ||
| obtained by the board from reports required by this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
