Bill Text - AB-2192 State-funded research: grant requirements | California

"ASSEMBLY BILL No. 2192 Introduced by Assembly Member Mark Stone, February 12, 2018

An act to amend Section 66010.6 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education. Sections 13989.2, 13989.4, and 13989.6 of, and to repeal Section 13989.8 of, the Government Code, relating to state-funded research.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2192, as amended, Mark Stone. Postsecondary education: state administration. State-funded research: grant requirements.

The California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act, until January 1, 2020, establishes publication requirements for a grantee receiving funding from the State Department of Public Health. The act requires the department to include specified terms and conditions in a research grant, which are required to be adhered to by the grantee as a condition of receiving the grant. These conditions include a requirement that grantees report and make certain information publicly available about any published manuscript concerning their research not later than 12 months after publication. This bill would expand the scope of the act to include research grants provided in whole or in part by any state agency within the executive branch, as specified. The bill would shorten the timeframe required for grantees to make publication information publicly available from 12 to 6 months. The bill would also extend the operation of these provisions indefinitely...."