By: Hinojosa, Lucio S.B. No. 1653
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the university advisory committee of and procedure for
making awards by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of
Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 102.154(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
University Advisory Committee is composed of the following members:
(1) two members appointed by the chancellor of The
University of Texas System to represent:
(A) The University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center;
(B) The University of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston;
(C) The University of Texas Health Science Center
at Houston;
(D) The University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio;
(E) The University of Texas Health Center at
Tyler; [or]
(F) The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
School of Medicine; or
(G) The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer
Center;
(2) one member appointed by the chancellor of The
Texas A&M University System to represent:
(A) The Texas A&M University System Health
Science Center; or
(B) the teaching hospital for The Texas A&M
Health Science Center College of Medicine;
(3) one member appointed by the chancellor of the
Texas Tech University System to represent the Texas Tech University
Health Sciences Center;
(4) one member appointed by the chancellor of the
University of Houston System to represent the system;
(5) one member appointed by the chancellor of the
Texas State University System to represent the system;
(6) one member appointed by the chancellor of the
University of North Texas System to represent the system;
(7) one member appointed by the president of Baylor
College of Medicine;
(8) one member appointed by the president of Rice
University;
(9) members appointed at the executive director's
discretion by the chancellors of other institutions.
SECTION 2. Section 102.251, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
(f) The oversight committee may request a list of all grant
applications submitted to the institute under this chapter,
regardless of whether the grant applications were included on the
list submitted to the committee under Subsection (a)(2).
(g) The institute shall allocate grant money awarded under
Subchapter E in a fiscal year to projects located in counties that:
(1) have been designated under state or federal law as
a medically underserved area;
(2) contain a health-related institution of higher
education whose expenditures for research and development in the
previous year was not in the top three among health-related
institutions; and
(3) contain a hospital.
(h) Grant money awarded under subsection (g) for cancer
prevention and research purposes may only be used for cancer
prevention programming and operations.
SECTION 3. Section 102.252, Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 102.252. FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS. (a) Two-thirds of
the members of the oversight committee present and voting must vote
to approve each funding recommendation of the program integration
committee. If the oversight committee does not approve a funding
recommendation of the program integration committee, a statement
explaining the reasons a funding recommendation was not followed
must be included in the minutes of the meeting.
(b) The oversight committee may vote on a grant application
included on a list requested by the oversight committee under
Section 102.251(f). Two-thirds of the members of the oversight
committee present and voting must vote to approve each grant
application. If the oversight committee does not approve a grant
application, a statement explaining the reasons grant money will
not be awarded to the applicant must be included in the minutes of
the meeting.
SECTION 4. Section 102.255, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) If the institute recovers money under Subsection
(b)(2) or (3), the institute may award that money during the same
grant cycle in accordance with this chapter to a project that the
institute determines is able to be imminently commenced.
SECTION 5. (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 only to a grant
application submitted to the Cancer Prevention and Research
Institute of Texas on or after the effective date of this Act. A
grant application submitted before the effective date of this Act
is governed by the law in effect on the date the application was
submitted, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.