Tex. Educ. Code § 61.0662 · Subchapter C. POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD
INFORMATION ON RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY INSTITUTIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board shall maintain an inventory of all institutional and programmatic research activities being conducted by the various institutions of higher education, whether state-financed or not.
(b) Once a year, on dates prescribed by the board, each institution of higher education shall report to the board all research conducted at that institution during the preceding year. Each institution's report must include the amounts spent by the institution on human embryonic stem cell research and adult stem cell research during the year covered by the report and the source of the funding for that research.
(c) All reports required by this section shall be made subject to the limitations imposed by security regulations governing defense contracts for research.
(d) Not later than January 1 of each year, the board shall submit to the legislature information regarding human stem cell research obtained by the board from reports required by this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 345 (S.B. 139), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2007.
Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 61.051(h) by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1155 (S.B. 215), Sec. 43, eff. September 1, 2013.
Reenacted and amended by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1236 (S.B. 1296), Sec. 5.006(a), eff. September 1, 2015.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.61.htm
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