Bill Text: TX SB385 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Tarrant County Hospital District or a nonprofit corporation formed by the district regarding certain technology or intellectual property owned by or licensed to the district or corporation.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-04 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB385 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB385-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Powell | S.B. No. 385 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed January 21, 2021; March 9, 2021, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Local Government; | ||
| April 27, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, | ||
| Nays 0; April 27, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to the authority of the Tarrant County Hospital District | ||
| or a nonprofit corporation formed by the district regarding certain | ||
| technology or intellectual property owned by or licensed to the | ||
| district or corporation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 281, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 281.0519 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 281.0519. TARRANT COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT; AUTHORITY | ||
| TO SELL OR LICENSE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. (a) The Tarrant County | ||
| Hospital District or a nonprofit corporation formed by the district | ||
| may: | ||
| (1) sell or license technology or intellectual | ||
| property that is owned by or licensed to the district or a nonprofit | ||
| corporation formed by the district; | ||
| (2) enter into a contract to provide services related | ||
| to technology or intellectual property sold or licensed under | ||
| Subdivision (1); | ||
| (3) contract, collaborate, or enter into a joint | ||
| venture or other agreement with a public or private entity to engage | ||
| in an activity authorized under Subdivision (1) or (2); or | ||
| (4) take any other action necessary to protect or | ||
| benefit from the exclusivity of technology and intellectual | ||
| property owned by or licensed to the district or a nonprofit | ||
| corporation formed by the district, including applying for, | ||
| acquiring, registering, securing, holding, protecting, and | ||
| renewing under applicable provisions of state, federal, or | ||
| international law: | ||
| (A) a patent; | ||
| (B) a copyright; | ||
| (C) a trademark, service mark, collective mark, | ||
| or certification mark; or | ||
| (D) any other form of protection of intellectual | ||
| property provided by law. | ||
| (b) For purposes of Subsection (a)(3): | ||
| (1) a public or private entity may be a for-profit or a | ||
| nonprofit entity; and | ||
| (2) a nonprofit corporation formed by the district may | ||
| hold an ownership interest in a public or private entity described | ||
| by Subsection (a)(3). | ||
| (c) Information prepared or compiled by or for the Tarrant | ||
| County Hospital District or a nonprofit corporation formed by the | ||
| district relating to the development of technology or intellectual | ||
| property to which this section applies is exempt from public | ||
| disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2021. | ||
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