To enact sections 3333.101 and 3333.102 of the Revised Code to create the Frances Lewandowski Memorial Medical Research Fund and the Medical University Research Reserve Fund to provide grants to public medical schools for research on terminal, chronic, or currently incurable diseases, to require the General Assembly annually to appropriate for those grants an amount equal to not less than one-tenth of one per cent of the total prior year General Revenue Fund appropriations, and to make an appropriation.

Section 1. That sections 3333.101 and 3333.102 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 3333.101.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Eligible program" means a medical school accredited by the liaison committee on medical education or an osteopathic medical school accredited by the American osteopathic association.

(2) "State institution of higher education" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code.

(B) The chancellor of the Ohio board of regents shall establish and administer the Frances Lewandowski memorial medical research fund to provide grants to eligible programs at state institutions of higher education for conducting research on terminal, chronic, or currently incurable diseases.

The chancellor shall transfer any funds not awarded under this section in a fiscal year to the medical university research reserve fund created in section 3333.102 of the Revised Code to use for awarding grants in subsequent fiscal years.

(C)(1) Not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, the chancellor shall create, and appoint members to, the Frances Lewandowski memorial medical research fund board to solicit, accept, and review applications for the Frances Lewandowski memorial medical research fund. Members of the board shall have demonstrated experience and expertise in the field of medical research.

(2) The chancellor shall adopt a policy by which the board shall solicit, accept, and review applications for the Frances Lewandowski memorial medical research fund. The board shall begin accepting and reviewing applications and awarding grants under this section not later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section.

(D) The general assembly shall appropriate for the purposes of financing grants under this section, for each fiscal year, an amount equal to not less than one-tenth of one per cent of the total amount of moneys appropriated for all purposes from the general revenue fund in the previous fiscal year.

Sec. 3333.102.  The medical university research reserve fund is hereby established in the state treasury. After the end of each fiscal year, the chancellor of the Ohio board of regents shall transfer any funds remaining after the Frances Lewandowski memorial medical research fund board awards grants under section 3333.101 of the Revised Code into the medical university research reserve fund from which the board may award future grants under that section.

Section 2. On July 1, 2014, or as soon as possible thereafter, the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer cash in an amount equal to one-tenth of one per cent of the total amount of moneys appropriated for all purposes from the General Revenue Fund in fiscal year 2014 from the General Revenue Fund to the Frances Lewandowski Memorial Medical Research Fund (Fund 5PJ0) to be used by the Chancellor of the Board of Regents for the grant program established under section 3333.101 of the Revised Code. The transferred cash is hereby appropriated.