Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

Texas House Bill HB1952 Compare Versions

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1	1	84R5519 JSC-D
2	2	By: Springer H.B. No. 1952
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to grants awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research
8	8	Institute of Texas.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 102.251, Health and Safety Code, is
11	11	amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to
12	12	read as follows:
13	13	(a) The oversight committee shall issue rules regarding the
14	14	procedure for awarding grants to an applicant under this chapter.
15	15	The rules must include the following procedures:
16	16	(1) a research and prevention programs committee shall
17	17	score grant applications and make recommendations to the program
18	18	integration committee, established under Section 102.264, and the
19	19	oversight committee regarding the award of cancer research and
20	20	prevention grants, including a prioritized list that:
21	21	(A) ranks the grant applications in the order the
22	22	committee determines applications should be funded; and
23	23	(B) includes information explaining how each
24	24	grant application on the list meets the research and prevention
25	25	programs committee's standards for recommendation;
26	26	(2) the program integration committee shall submit to
27	27	the oversight committee a list of grant applications the program
28	28	integration committee by majority vote approved for recommendation
29	29	that:
30	30	(A) includes documentation on the factors the
31	31	program integration committee considered in making the grant
32	32	recommendations;
33	33	(B) is substantially based on the list submitted
34	34	by the research and prevention programs committee under Subdivision
35	35	(1); and
36	36	(C) to the extent possible, gives priority to
37	37	proposals that:
38	38	(i) could lead to immediate or long-term
39	39	medical and scientific breakthroughs in the area of cancer
40	40	prevention or cures for cancer;
41	41	(ii) strengthen and enhance fundamental
42	42	science in cancer research;
43	43	(iii) ensure a comprehensive coordinated
44	44	approach to cancer research;
45	45	(iv) are interdisciplinary or
46	46	interinstitutional;
47	47	(v) address federal or other major research
48	48	sponsors' priorities in emerging scientific or technology fields in
49	49	the area of cancer prevention or cures for cancer;
50	50	(vi) are matched with funds available by a
51	51	private or nonprofit entity and institution or institutions of
52	52	higher education;
53	53	(vii) are collaborative between any
54	54	combination of private and nonprofit entities, public or private
55	55	agencies or institutions in this state, and public or private
56	56	institutions outside this state;
57	57	(viii) have a demonstrable economic
58	58	development benefit to this state;
59	59	(ix) enhance research superiority at
60	60	institutions of higher education in this state by creating new
61	61	research superiority, attracting existing research superiority
62	62	from institutions not located in this state and other research
63	63	entities, or enhancing existing research superiority by attracting
64	64	from outside this state additional researchers and resources;
65	65	(x) [expedite innovation and product
66	66	development, attract, create, or expand private sector entities
67	67	that will drive a substantial increase in high-quality jobs, and]
68	68	increase higher education applied science or technology research
69	69	capabilities; and
70	70	(xi) address the goals of the Texas Cancer
71	71	Plan; and
72	72	(3) the institute's chief compliance officer shall
73	73	compare each grant application submitted to the institute to a list
74	74	of donors from any nonprofit organization established to provide
75	75	support to the institute compiled from information made available
76	76	under Section 102.262(c) before the application is submitted to a
77	77	research and prevention programs committee for review and again
78	78	before any grant is awarded to the applicant.
79	79	(f) The institute may not award a grant for the purpose of
80	80	expediting innovation and product development of a private sector
81	81	entity, or to attract, create, or expand a private sector entity.
82	82	SECTION 2. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective
83	83	date of this Act, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of
84	84	Texas Oversight Committee shall adopt the rules necessary to
85	85	implement the changes in law made by this Act.
86	86	(b) The changes in law made by this Act apply to a grant
87	87	awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas on
88	88	or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of whether the
89	89	grant application was submitted before, on, or after the effective
90	90	date of this Act.
91	91	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
92	92	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
93	93	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
94	94	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
95	95	Act takes effect September 1, 2015.