FIRST REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES LEACH (Sponsor), SCHOELLER, RIDDLE, JONES (89), DIEHL, SMITH (150), KEENEY, SCHARNHORST, BRATTIN, LICHTENEGGER, CIERPIOT, CONWAY (14), KELLEY (126), STREAM, HAMPTON, FRANKLIN, FITZWATER, FAITH, SOLON, HAEFNER, ALLEN, LASATER, BAHR, FRAKER, WYATT, BROWN (85), LANT, ENTLICHER, ZERR, CRAWFORD, REDMON, REIBOLDT, WIELAND, FREDERICK, McCAHERTY, LAIR, DIECKHAUS, LONG, BERRY, SCHIEBER, BARNES, BLACK, MEADOWS, FALLERT, McGEOGHEGAN, CASEY, QUINN, HARRIS, COOKSON, MARSHALL AND LARGENT (Co-sponsors).
1600L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal sections 172.794 and 304.027, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to life sciences.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 172.794 and 304.027, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 172.794 and 304.027, to read as follows:
172.794. 1. The board of curators, with the recommendations of the advisory board, shall award funds to selected investigators in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) Individual awards shall not exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars per year and shall expire at the end of one or two years, depending on the recommendation of the advisory board for each award;
(2) Costs for overhead of the grantee individual or institution shall not be allowed;
(3) Investigators shall be affiliated with a public or private educational, health care, voluntary health association or research institution which shall specify the institutional official responsible for administration of the award;
(4) Awards shall be used to obtain preliminary data to test hypotheses and to enable investigators to develop subsequent competitive applications for long-term funding from other sources; and
(5) The research project shall be conducted in Missouri and shall be subject to the provisions of section 196.1127.
2. Funds appropriated for but not awarded to research projects in any given year shall be included in the board of curators' appropriations request for research projects in the succeeding year.
304.027. 1. There is hereby created in the state treasury for use by the board of curators of the University of Missouri a fund to be known as the "Spinal Cord Injury Fund". All judgments collected pursuant to this section, appropriations of the general assembly, federal grants, private donations and any other moneys designated for the spinal cord injury fund established pursuant to this section, shall be deposited in the fund. Moneys deposited in the fund shall be subject to the provisions of section 196.1127 and shall, upon appropriation by the general assembly to the board of curators, be received and expended by the board for the purpose of funding research projects that promote an advancement of knowledge in the area of spinal cord injury. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, any unexpended balance in the spinal cord injury fund at the end of any biennium shall not be transferred to the general revenue fund.
2. In all criminal cases including violations of any county ordinance or any violation of criminal or traffic laws of this state, including an infraction, there shall be assessed as costs a surcharge in the amount of two dollars. No such surcharge shall be collected in any proceeding involving a violation of an ordinance or state law when the proceeding or defendant has been dismissed by the court or when costs are to be paid by the state, county or municipality. Such surcharge shall be collected and disbursed by the clerk of the court as provided by sections 488.010 to 488.020. The surcharge collected pursuant to this section shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the spinal cord injury fund created in this section.
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