By: Watson S.B. No. 224
(In the Senate - Filed November 14, 2016; January 25, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human
Services; April 10, 2017, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 2; April 10, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the sunset review date for the Cancer Prevention and
Research Institute of Texas and the time for awarding cancer
research and prevention grants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 102.003, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 102.003. SUNSET PROVISION. The Cancer Prevention and
Research Institute of Texas is subject to Chapter 325, Government
Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided
by that chapter, the institute is abolished and this chapter
expires September 1, 2023 [2021].
SECTION 2. Section 102.254, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 102.254. PERIOD FOR AWARDS. The oversight committee
may not award money under Subchapter E [before January 1, 2008, or]
after August 31, 2022 [2020].
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, 2017.
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