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To enact sections 3333.101 and 3333.102 of the | 1 |
Revised Code to create the Frances Lewandowski | 2 |
Memorial Medical Research Fund and the Medical | 3 |
University Research Reserve Fund to provide grants | 4 |
to public medical schools for research on | 5 |
terminal, chronic, or currently incurable | 6 |
diseases, to require the General Assembly annually | 7 |
to appropriate for those grants an amount equal to | 8 |
not less than one-tenth of one per cent of the | 9 |
total prior year General Revenue Fund | 10 |
appropriations, and to make an appropriation. | 11 |
Section 1. That sections 3333.101 and 3333.102 of the Revised | 12 |
Code be enacted to read as follows: | 13 |
Sec. 3333.101. (A) As used in this section: | 14 |
(1) "Eligible program" means a medical school accredited by | 15 |
the liaison committee on medical education or an osteopathic | 16 |
medical school accredited by the American osteopathic association. | 17 |
(2) "State institution of higher education" has the same | 18 |
meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. | 19 |
(B) The chancellor of the Ohio board of regents shall | 20 |
establish and administer the Frances Lewandowski memorial medical | 21 |
research fund to provide grants to eligible programs at state | 22 |
institutions of higher education for conducting research on | 23 |
terminal, chronic, or currently incurable diseases. | 24 |
The chancellor shall transfer any funds not awarded under | 25 |
this section in a fiscal year to the medical university research | 26 |
reserve fund created in section 3333.102 of the Revised Code to | 27 |
use for awarding grants in subsequent fiscal years. | 28 |
(C)(1) Not later than ninety days after the effective date of | 29 |
this section, the chancellor shall create, and appoint members to, | 30 |
the Frances Lewandowski memorial medical research fund board to | 31 |
solicit, accept, and review applications for the Frances | 32 |
Lewandowski memorial medical research fund. Members of the board | 33 |
shall have demonstrated experience and expertise in the field of | 34 |
medical research. | 35 |
(2) The chancellor shall adopt a policy by which the board | 36 |
shall solicit, accept, and review applications for the Frances | 37 |
Lewandowski memorial medical research fund. The board shall begin | 38 |
accepting and reviewing applications and awarding grants under | 39 |
this section not later than one hundred eighty days after the | 40 |
effective date of this section. | 41 |
(D) The general assembly shall appropriate for the purposes | 42 |
of financing grants under this section, for each fiscal year, an | 43 |
amount equal to not less than one-tenth of one per cent of the | 44 |
total amount of moneys appropriated for all purposes from the | 45 |
general revenue fund in the previous fiscal year. | 46 |
Sec. 3333.102. The medical university research reserve fund | 47 |
is hereby established in the state treasury. After the end of each | 48 |
fiscal year, the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents shall | 49 |
transfer any funds remaining after the Frances Lewandowski | 50 |
memorial medical research fund board awards grants under section | 51 |
3333.101 of the Revised Code into the medical university research | 52 |
reserve fund from which the board may award future grants under | 53 |
that section. | 54 |
Section 2. On July 1, 2014, or as soon as possible | 55 |
thereafter, the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer | 56 |
cash in an amount equal to one-tenth of one per cent of the total | 57 |
amount of moneys appropriated for all purposes from the General | 58 |
Revenue Fund in fiscal year 2014 from the General Revenue Fund to | 59 |
the Frances Lewandowski Memorial Medical Research Fund (Fund 5PJ0) | 60 |
to be used by the Chancellor of the Board of Regents for the grant | 61 |
program established under section 3333.101 of the Revised Code. | 62 |
The transferred cash is hereby appropriated. | 63 |