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.