Bill Text: CA SB836 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Brain research: Cal-BRAIN program.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-24 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB836 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB836-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 836	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 27, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 13, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 7, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 22, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Corbett
   (Coauthors: Senators Anderson, Beall, Block, Cannella, Correa,
Evans, Galgiani, Hancock, Hill, Lara, Lieu, Liu, Nielsen, Roth, and
Wolk)
   (  Coauthor:   Assembly Member 
 Waldron   Coauthors:   Assembly
Members   Skinner   and Waldron  )

                        JANUARY 6, 2014

   An act to add Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 92985) to Part
57 of Division 9 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to brain
research.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 836, as amended, Corbett. Brain research: Cal-BRAIN program.
   Existing law establishes various health research grant programs,
including the Cancer Research Program, the Breast Cancer Research
Program, and the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program.
   This bill, the California Blueprint for Research to Advance
Innovations in Neuroscience (Cal-BRAIN) Act of 2014, would request
the Regents of the University of California to establish the
Cal-BRAIN program to leverage California's research assets and the
federal BRAIN Initiative's funding opportunities to accelerate the
development of brain mapping techniques, including the development of
new technologies, in order to achieve certain goals. The bill would
additionally request the University of California to convene certain
stakeholders to  administer   develop a
governing structure for  the Cal-BRAIN program  designed
 to do specified tasks  ,  and to provide information
about the program through an Internet Web site. These provisions
would only be implemented to the extent that adequate funding is
appropriated to the University of California, as specified.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) In April 2013, President Obama unveiled the Brain Research
through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative --
a collaborative program that will map the activity of every neuron in
the human brain with a programmed total investment of more than $300
million per year over 10 years.
   (b) The BRAIN Initiative is launching with approximately $110
million in funding for research in 2014, as well as additional
private sector investment from institutes and foundations based in
California.
   (c) California is poised to be a world leader in this research
effort given the prominent role of scientists and industry leaders
throughout the state.
   (d) Four of the six scientists who proposed the BRAIN Initiative
and six of the 15 members of the Advisory Committee to the Director
of the National Institutes of Health for the BRAIN Initiative are
from California.
   (e) Some California-based corporations have indicated they are
interested in collaborating with brain research institutions on
research for the BRAIN Initiative to bring new discoveries to the
marketplace.
   (f) The BRAIN Initiative has the potential to be a major driver of
new industries and jobs in biotechnology, artificial intelligence,
and information technologies, as well as a catalyst for major
breakthroughs in brain-related diseases, injuries, and illnesses,
including Alzheimer's disease, which is programmed to cost California
over $30 billion a year by 2030.
   (g) The products of scientific research improve the quality of our
lives and health and provide us with high-quality jobs that employ
and demand a highly skilled workforce.
   (h) Given California's assets and capacity for collaboration,
entrepreneurship, and innovation, a state investment to expand and
accelerate this research in the state and to promote the translation
of breakthroughs into the marketplace is an important investment in
the intellectual infrastructure for California's economic future.
  SEC. 2.  Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 92985) is added to
Part 57 of Division 9 of Title 3 of the Education Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 15.  THE CALIFORNIA BLUEPRINT FOR RESEARCH TO ADVANCE
INNOVATIONS IN NEUROSCIENCE ACT OF 2014


   92985.  This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the
California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in
Neuroscience (Cal-BRAIN) Act of 2014.
   92986.  (a) The Regents of the University of California are
requested to establish the Cal-BRAIN program to leverage California's
vast research assets and the federal BRAIN Initiative's funding
opportunities to accelerate the development of brain mapping
techniques, including the development of new technologies, which will
create new, high-paying jobs in California while advancing patient
care and improving lives, in order to achieve the following goals:
   (1) Maintain California's leadership role in neuroscience
innovation.
   (2) Develop a dynamic map of the human brain that provides
researchers, physicians, and engineers with the knowledge necessary
to develop new treatments and technologies that will improve lives
and reduce the costs of providing health care.
   (3) Grow California's economy through the expansion of California'
s high technology and biotechnology sectors.
   (4) Train the next generation of scientists for the neuroscience
and engineering jobs of the future.
   (b) The University of California is requested to utilize
California's unique collaborative research environment by convening
stakeholders from public and private research institutions, national
laboratories, biotechnology and high technology companies, and
venture capital firms to  administer the Cal-BRAIN program to
do all of the following: 
    (1)     Develop
  develop  the governing structure  of
  for  the Cal-BRAIN program. 
   (c) The governing structure shall be designed to do all of the
following:  
   (2) 
    (1)  Adopt a research plan that identifies milestones
for achieving the goals of the Cal-BRAIN program. 
   (3) 
    (2)  Establish competitive, merit-based opportunities
for interested public and private California research institutions
and national laboratories to apply for Cal-BRAIN program funding.

   (4) 
    (3)  Maintain the flexibility to adjust the Cal-BRAIN
program's priorities and focus based upon knowledge gained from
scientific discoveries. 
   (5) 
    (4)  Establish a technology transfer program to identify
and accelerate the commercial application of both early and
late-stage discoveries and technologies from the Cal-BRAIN program
into the marketplace and to promote new and expanded technology
sectors in the state. 
   (6) 
    (5)  Solicit contributions to the Cal-BRAIN program with
a goal of achieving a nonstate funding match that meets or exceeds
the financial investment by the state.
   92987.  The Regents of the University of California are requested
to provide information about the Cal-BRAIN program through an
Internet Web site, including a brief description of funded projects
and activities.
   92988.  This chapter shall be implemented only to the extent that
adequate funding for its purposes, as determined by the Regents of
the University of California, is appropriated to the University of
California in the annual Budget Act or other statute.