Bill Text: TX HB3914 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to prohibitions on the use of grant money awarded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to procure or obtain organs from a hospital located in China.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Public Health [HB3914 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3914-Introduced.html

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88R12169 MCF-D
By: Oliverson H.B. No. 3914

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prohibitions on the use of grant money awarded by the
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to procure or
obtain organs from a hospital located in China.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 102.251, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) The institute may not award a grant to an applicant
whose proposed research project requires the applicant to procure
or otherwise obtain from a hospital located in China an organ for
organ transplantation or another purpose.
SECTION 2. Section 102.255(c), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) The contract must:
(1) include terms relating to intellectual property
rights consistent with the standards developed by the oversight
committee under Section 102.256;
(2) require, in accordance with Subsection (d), the
grant recipient to dedicate an amount of matching funds equal to
one-half of the amount of the research grant awarded; [and]
(3) specify:
(A) the amount of matching funds to be dedicated
under Subdivision (2);
(B) the period in which the grant award must be
spent;
(C) the name of the research project to which
matching funds are to be dedicated; and
(D) the specific deliverables of the project that
is the subject of the grant proposal; and
(4) require a grant recipient to certify in writing as
a term of the contract that the recipient will not use grant money
awarded under this chapter to procure or otherwise obtain from a
hospital located in China an organ for organ transplantation or
another purpose.
SECTION 3. (a) The changes in law made by this Act apply
only to a grant awarded or contract entered into or renewed under
Chapter 102, Health and Safety Code, on or after the effective date
of this Act.
(b) The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
shall seek to amend the terms of each contract entered into with a
grant recipient under Chapter 102, Health and Safety Code, before
the effective date of this Act to require the recipient to comply
with Section 102.255(c)(4), Health and Safety Code, as added by
this Act. To the extent of a conflict between that subdivision and
a provision of a contract with a grant recipient entered into before
the effective date of this Act, the contract provision prevails.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.