(a) number and dollar amounts of research and facilities grants;
(b) grantees for the prior year;
(c) board's administrative expenses;
(d) summary of research findings, including promising new research
areas; and
(e) strategic plan of the board.
2. Conflicts of interest. No employee of the board or member of the
funding or ethics committees shall make, participate in making, or in
any way attempt to use his or her position to influence a decision to
approve or award a grant, loan, or contract to:
(a) his or her employer or relative, or any entity in which the
employee, member of the board, or member of the advisory counsel or the
relative of any such individual has a financial interest; or
(b) an organization in which such employee, member of the board,
member of the advisory counsel, or any relative of any such individual
is an officer, director or partner of such organization.
3. Patent royalties and license revenues. The board shall establish
standards that require that all grants be subject to intellectual
property agreements that establish the scope, if any, of the state's
ownership or other financial interest in the commercialization and other
benefits of the results, products, inventions and discoveries of
state-funded stem cell research, and shall also include consideration in
such agreement for amounts of funding from sources other than the state.
4. Contributions to the board. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
the law to the contrary, the board is authorized to receive
contributions from any governmental entity, for profit and
not-for-profit corporation, association or person.
* NB Repealed December 31, 2025