By: Nelson, Nichols S.B. No. 228
(In the Senate - Filed November 18, 2010; January 31, 2011,
read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
Services; March 14, 2011, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 14, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.
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