By: Nelson, Schwertner S.B. No. 150
(In the Senate - Filed December 19, 2012; January 29, 2013,
read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
Services; March 4, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 4, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the cancer prevention and research fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 102.201, Health
and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) The cancer prevention and research fund consists of:
(1) patent, royalty, and license fees and other income
received under a contract entered into as provided by Section
102.255;
(2) appropriations of money to the fund by the
legislature, except that the appropriated money may not include the
proceeds from the issuance of bonds authorized by Section 67,
Article III, Texas Constitution;
(3) gifts, grants, including grants from the federal
government, and other donations received for the fund; and
(4) interest earned on the investment of money in the
fund.
(c) The fund may be used only to pay for:
(1) grants for cancer research and for cancer research
facilities in this state to realize therapies, protocols, and
medical procedures for the cure or substantial mitigation of all
types of cancer in humans;
(2) the purchase, subject to approval by the
institute, of laboratory facilities by or on behalf of a state
agency or grant recipient;
(3) grants to public or private persons to implement
the Texas Cancer Plan;
(4) the operation of the institute; [and]
(5) grants for cancer prevention and control programs
in this state to mitigate the incidence of all types of cancer in
humans; and
(6) debt service on bonds issued as authorized by
Section 67, Article III, Texas Constitution.
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, 2013.
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