Bill Text: TX SB197 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the financial self-sufficiency of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-26 - Point of order sustained [SB197 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB197-Introduced.html

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84R2770 JSC-D
By: Schwertner S.B. No. 197

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the financial self-sufficiency of the Cancer Prevention
and Research Institute of Texas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 102, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 102.005 to read as follows:
Sec. 102.005. FINANCIAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY PLAN. (a) The
institute shall develop a plan that specifies how the institute
will become financially self-sufficient and continue to operate
without state funding.
(b) The plan described by Subsection (a) must:
(1) specify the steps the institute will take to
accomplish the transition to financial self-sufficiency before
September 1, 2021;
(2) specify sources of funding other than state money
to be used to operate the institute on and after September 1, 2021;
and
(3) describe how the institute will structure
state-funded grants until September 1, 2021, to ensure that all
grants that use state money are closed out by that date.
(c) The institute shall submit the initial plan to the
legislature not later than December 1, 2016. The institute shall
submit an updated plan before December 1 of each subsequent year.
(d) This section expires September 1, 2021.
SECTION 2. 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.