By: Guerra H.B. No. 3579
 
 
 
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; and
               (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.