HB3579 —

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This bill amends 4 section(s) of the Texas statutes: Section 102.154(a), Health and Safety Code, Section 102.251, Health and Safety Code, Section 102.252, Health and Safety Code, Section 102.255, Health and Safety Code.

• Section 102.154(a), Health and Safety Code

  or → The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine; or (G)

  amended

• Section 102.251, Health and Safety Code

  (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.

  amended

• Section 102.252, Health and Safety Code

  (a) (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.

  amended

• Section 102.255, Health and Safety Code

  (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.

  amended