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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SEAWRIGHT, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, REYES, GLICK --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and part H of chapter  58  of  the
   laws  of  2007  amending  the public health law, the  public  officers
   law  and  the state  finance  law relating to establishing the  empire
   state  stem  cell board, in relation to the continuation of the empire
   state stem cell board
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 265-a of the public health law, as
 amended  by  section  1  of part M of chapter 57 of the laws of 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. The empire state stem cell board ("board"), comprised of a  funding
 committee and an ethics committee, both of which shall be chaired by the
 commissioner, is hereby created within the department for the purpose of
 administering  the  empire  state stem cell trust fund ("fund"), created
 pursuant to section ninety-nine-p of the state finance law. The board is
 hereby empowered, subject to annual  appropriations  and  other  funding
 authorized or made available, to make grants to basic, applied, transla-
 tional  or  other  research and development activities that will advance
 scientific  discoveries  in  fields  related  to  stem  cell   biology[;
 provided,  however, that the board shall not make any grants on or after
 April first, two thousand twenty-one].
   § 2. Section 4 of part H of chapter 58 of the laws  of  2007  amending
 the public health law, the public officers law and the state finance law
 relating to establishing the empire state stem cell board, as amended by
 section  2  of  part  M of chapter 57 of the laws of 2021, is amended to
 read as follows:
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2007 [and shall
 expire and be deemed repealed December 31, 2025].
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.