Tex. Health & Safety Code § 101A.101 · Subchapter C. OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
COMPOSITION OF OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The oversight committee is the institute's governing body.
(b) The oversight committee is composed of the following nine members:
(1) three members appointed by the governor;
(2) three members appointed by the lieutenant governor; and
(3) three members appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.
(c) The oversight committee members must represent this state's geographic and cultural diversity.
(d) In making appointments to the oversight committee, the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives:
(1) must each appoint at least one person who is a physician or a scientist with extensive experience working with dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, or related disorders or in the field of public health; and
(2) should attempt to include persons affected by dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, or related disorders or family members or caregivers of patients with dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, or related disorders.
(e) A person may not be an oversight committee member if:
(1) the person or the person's spouse is employed by or participates in the management of an entity receiving money from the institute;
(2) the person or the person's spouse owns or controls, directly or indirectly, an interest in an entity receiving money from the institute;
(3) the person or the person's spouse uses or receives a substantial amount of tangible goods, services, or money from the institute, other than reimbursement authorized by this chapter for oversight committee membership, attendance, or expenses; or
(4) the person is a member of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Oversight Committee established under Section 102.101.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 137 (S.B. 5), Sec. 1, eff. December 1, 2025, subject to resolution of an election contest under Chapter 233, Election Code, relating to Article III, Section 68, Texas Constitution.
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