Bill Text - AB-609 State-funded research: State Department of Public Health.

"This bill would enact, until January 1, 2020, the California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act. The bill would establish publication requirements for a grantee receiving funding, in whole or in part, in the form of a research grant from the State Department of Public Health. The bill would require the department to include specified terms and conditions in a research grant that are required to be adhered to as a condition of the grantee receiving the research grant. The bill would require the grantee to provide for public access to any publication of a department-funded invention or department-funded technology, as specified, including ensuring that electronic version of the peer-reviewed manuscript is available to the department on an appropriate publicly accessible database approved by the department, to be made publicly available not later than 12 months after the official date of publication. The bill would provide that this act does not apply to a grantee that receives funding from the department if there is an existing publication requirement that meets or exceeds the requirements of this bill and that the provisions do not apply to research grants issued prior to January 1, 2015...."