CPRIT Founders Lay Out Reform Legislation
The legislative founders of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas laid out the first draft of a bill to reform the embattled agency on Tuesday before the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
CPRIT officials “interpreted policies in ways that I don’t believe any reasonable person would,” said Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, who in 2007 authored the legislation that founded CPRIT with Rep. Jim Keffer, R-Granbury. "... In doing so, they let us all down, elected officials, the public, advocates in the cancer community.”
The proposed legislation restructures CPRIT’s leadership staff, establishes a compliance program to ...
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Jim Vance
How about including strong exclusions and prohibitions against this "honeypot" entitiy's practices of funding sweetheart deals with insiders and corporate contributors to its foundation without much in the way of scientific review or justification beyond "quid pro quo"? That would be a good start, followed by independent management with oversight by a credible Board with public accountability.