MO Rev Stat § 196.1109 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 196 - Food, Drugs and Tobacco|Section 196.1109 - Moneys appropriated from trust fund, purposes.

 There are multiple enactments of 196.1109Effective - 03 Feb 2012, 2 histories   *196.1109. Moneys appropriated from trust fund, purposes. — All moneys that are appropriated by the general assembly from the life sciences research trust fund shall be appropriated to the life sciences research board to increase the capacity for quality of life sciences research at public and private not-for-profit institutions in the state of Missouri and to thereby:  (1) Improve the quantity and quality of life sciences research at public and private not-for-profit institutions, including but not limited to basic research (including the discovery of new knowledge), translational research (including translating knowledge into a usable form), and clinical research (including the literal application of a therapy or intervention to determine its efficacy), including but not limited to health research in human development and aging, cancer, endocrine, cardiovascular, neurological, pulmonary, and infectious disease, and plant sciences, including but not limited to nutrition and food safety; and  (2) Enhance technology transfer and technology commercialization derived from research at public and private not-for-profit institutions within the centers for excellence. For purposes of sections 196.1100 to 196.1130, "technology transfer and technology commercialization" includes stages of the regular business cycle occurring after research and development of a life science technology, including but not limited to reduction to practice, proof of concept, and achieving federal Food and Drug Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, or other regulatory requirements in addition to the definition in section 348.251. ­­Funds received by the board may be used for purposes authorized in sections 196.1100 to 196.1130 and shall be subject to the restrictions of sections 196.1100 to 196.1130, including but not limited to the costs of personnel, supplies, equipment, and renovation or construction of physical facilities; provided that in any single fiscal year no more than thirty percent of the moneys appropriated shall be used for the construction of physical facilities and further provided that in any fiscal year up to eighty percent of the moneys shall be appropriated to build research capacity at public and private not-for-profit institutions and at least twenty percent and no more than fifty percent of the moneys shall be appropriated for grants to public or private not-for-profit institutions to promote life science technology transfer and technology commercialization. Of the moneys appropriated to build research capacity, twenty percent of the moneys shall be appropriated to promote the development of research of tobacco-related illnesses. ­­-------- (L. 2003 H.B. 688, A.L. 2011 1st Ex. Sess. S.B. 7)  Effective: see contingency, section 348.280  *Revisor's note: This section was declared unconstitutional in Missouri Roundtable for Life, Inc. v. State, 396 S.W.3d 348 (Mo.banc).  (2013) Provisions of S.B. 7 from First Extraordinary Session in 2011 are unconstitutional; section B of act as codified in section 348.280 is a violation of the single subject requirement of Article III, Section 23 and remaining provisions of bill could not be severed. Missouri Roundtable for Life, Inc. v. State, 396 S.W.3d 348 (Mo.banc).