| 1 | 1 | | By: Nelson, Schwertner S.B. No. 150 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed December 19, 2012; January 29, 2013, |
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| 3 | 3 | | read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human |
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| 4 | 4 | | Services; March 4, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | 5 | | Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 4, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to the cancer prevention and research fund. |
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| 11 | 11 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 12 | | SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 102.201, Health |
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| 13 | 13 | | and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (b) The cancer prevention and research fund consists of: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (1) patent, royalty, and license fees and other income |
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| 16 | 16 | | received under a contract entered into as provided by Section |
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| 17 | 17 | | 102.255; |
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| 18 | 18 | | (2) appropriations of money to the fund by the |
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| 19 | 19 | | legislature, except that the appropriated money may not include the |
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| 20 | 20 | | proceeds from the issuance of bonds authorized by Section 67, |
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| 21 | 21 | | Article III, Texas Constitution; |
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| 22 | 22 | | (3) gifts, grants, including grants from the federal |
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| 23 | 23 | | government, and other donations received for the fund; and |
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| 24 | 24 | | (4) interest earned on the investment of money in the |
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| 25 | 25 | | fund. |
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| 26 | 26 | | (c) The fund may be used only to pay for: |
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| 27 | 27 | | (1) grants for cancer research and for cancer research |
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| 28 | 28 | | facilities in this state to realize therapies, protocols, and |
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| 29 | 29 | | medical procedures for the cure or substantial mitigation of all |
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| 30 | 30 | | types of cancer in humans; |
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| 31 | 31 | | (2) the purchase, subject to approval by the |
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| 32 | 32 | | institute, of laboratory facilities by or on behalf of a state |
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| 33 | 33 | | agency or grant recipient; |
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| 34 | 34 | | (3) grants to public or private persons to implement |
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| 35 | 35 | | the Texas Cancer Plan; |
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| 36 | 36 | | (4) the operation of the institute; [and] |
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| 37 | 37 | | (5) grants for cancer prevention and control programs |
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| 38 | 38 | | in this state to mitigate the incidence of all types of cancer in |
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| 39 | 39 | | humans; and |
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| 40 | 40 | | (6) debt service on bonds issued as authorized by |
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| 41 | 41 | | Section 67, Article III, Texas Constitution. |
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| 42 | 42 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 43 | 43 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 44 | 44 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 45 | 45 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 46 | 46 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 47 | 47 | | * * * * * |
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