84R5519 JSC-D
By: Springer H.B. No. 1952
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to grants awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research
Institute of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 102.251, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to
read as follows:
(a) The oversight committee shall issue rules regarding the
procedure for awarding grants to an applicant under this chapter.
The rules must include the following procedures:
(1) a research and prevention programs committee shall
score grant applications and make recommendations to the program
integration committee, established under Section 102.264, and the
oversight committee regarding the award of cancer research and
prevention grants, including a prioritized list that:
(A) ranks the grant applications in the order the
committee determines applications should be funded; and
(B) includes information explaining how each
grant application on the list meets the research and prevention
programs committee's standards for recommendation;
(2) the program integration committee shall submit to
the oversight committee a list of grant applications the program
integration committee by majority vote approved for recommendation
that:
(A) includes documentation on the factors the
program integration committee considered in making the grant
recommendations;
(B) is substantially based on the list submitted
by the research and prevention programs committee under Subdivision
(1); and
(C) to the extent possible, gives priority to
proposals that:
(i) could lead to immediate or long-term
medical and scientific breakthroughs in the area of cancer
prevention or cures for cancer;
(ii) strengthen and enhance fundamental
science in cancer research;
(iii) ensure a comprehensive coordinated
approach to cancer research;
(iv) are interdisciplinary or
interinstitutional;
(v) address federal or other major research
sponsors' priorities in emerging scientific or technology fields in
the area of cancer prevention or cures for cancer;
(vi) are matched with funds available by a
private or nonprofit entity and institution or institutions of
higher education;
(vii) are collaborative between any
combination of private and nonprofit entities, public or private
agencies or institutions in this state, and public or private
institutions outside this state;
(viii) have a demonstrable economic
development benefit to this state;
(ix) enhance research superiority at
institutions of higher education in this state by creating new
research superiority, attracting existing research superiority
from institutions not located in this state and other research
entities, or enhancing existing research superiority by attracting
from outside this state additional researchers and resources;
(x) [expedite innovation and product
development, attract, create, or expand private sector entities
that will drive a substantial increase in high-quality jobs, and]
increase higher education applied science or technology research
capabilities; and
(xi) address the goals of the Texas Cancer
Plan; and
(3) the institute's chief compliance officer shall
compare each grant application submitted to the institute to a list
of donors from any nonprofit organization established to provide
support to the institute compiled from information made available
under Section 102.262(c) before the application is submitted to a
research and prevention programs committee for review and again
before any grant is awarded to the applicant.
(f) The institute may not award a grant for the purpose of
expediting innovation and product development of a private sector
entity, or to attract, create, or expand a private sector entity.
SECTION 2. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective
date of this Act, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of
Texas Oversight Committee shall adopt the rules necessary to
implement the changes in law made by this Act.
(b) The changes in law made by this Act apply to a grant
awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas on
or after the effective date of this Act, regardless of whether the
grant application was submitted before, on, or after the effective
date of this Act.
SECTION 3. 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, 2015.