Bill Text: TX SB803 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a study on the feasibility of requiring certain researchers to make research papers available to the public.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB803 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB803-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a study on the feasibility of requiring certain researchers to make research papers available to the public.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB803 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB803-Comm_Sub.html
By: Seliger | S.B. No. 803 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 9, 2017; February 22, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
April 12, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | ||
Nays 0; April 12, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to a study on the feasibility of requiring certain | ||
researchers to make research papers available to the public. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 61.0666 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.0666. FEASIBILITY STUDY ON COLLECTING PUBLISHED | ||
RESEARCH. (a) This section applies only to a researcher whose | ||
research is funded wholly or partly with: | ||
(1) state money; or | ||
(2) federal money, if the research is conducted in | ||
this state or by an institution of higher education. | ||
(b) The board, in consultation with institutions of higher | ||
education, publishing companies, and any other interested persons | ||
the board considers appropriate, shall study the feasibility of | ||
requiring each researcher to submit to a state agency an electronic | ||
copy of each original research paper by the researcher that is | ||
accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The study | ||
must examine: | ||
(1) the time requirements for submitting a research | ||
paper; | ||
(2) the manner for making the research paper available | ||
to the public, including posting on an Internet website; | ||
(3) the state agencies that have the resources | ||
necessary to collect research papers and coordinate the | ||
dissemination of the research papers; and | ||
(4) federal law requirements on the publication of a | ||
research paper by a researcher whose research is funded with | ||
federal money. | ||
(c) Not later than December 1, 2018, the board shall report | ||
the results of the study, its findings, and any recommendations to | ||
the legislature. | ||
(d) This section expires September 1, 2019. | ||
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, 2017. | ||
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