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Ballot Title FUNDING OF EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH
Ballot Summary
This amendment appropriates $20 million annually for ten fiscal years for grants by the Department of Health to Florida nonprofit
institutions to conduct embryonic stem cell research using, or using derivatives of, human embryos that, before or after formation, have
been donated to medicine under donor instructions forbidding intrauterine embryo transfer. An embryo is “donated to medicine” only if
given without receipt of consideration other than cost reimbursement and compensation for recovery of donated cells.
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Text of Amendment
“Article X of the Florida Constitution is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following section:
Funding of embryonic stem cell research.
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(a) |
There is hereby appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Health the sum of $20 million in each of the
ten fiscal years beginning with the year in which this amendment is adopted. With such funds the Department of Health shall
make grants for embryonic stem cell research using, or using the derivatives of, human embryos that, before or after formation,
have been donated to medicine under donor instructions forbidding intrauterine embryo transfer.
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(b) |
For this purpose, an embryo is “donated to medicine” if and only, under conditions that satisfy applicable requirements for
informed consent and do not involve financial inducement to any donor, the persons from whose cells the embryo originates
give the embryo to another under written instructions that the recipient shall use the embryo in biomedical research or therapy.
“Financial inducement” includes any valuable consideration but excludes (1) reimbursement for reasonable costs incurred in
connection with a donation, and (2) reasonable compensation to a donor from whom an oocyte is recovered, and to the donor of
any other cell recovered by an invasive procedure, for the preparation for and time, burden, and risk of such recovery.
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(c) |
The funds appropriated hereby shall be granted to nonprofit academic and other research institutions situated within the state.
Grantees shall be chosen on the basis of a recommended ordering of applications by scientific merit as reckoned in a peer review
process by disinterested experts in the relevant fields.
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This provision shall be self-executing and effective immediately upon adoption. This appropriation shall be nonlapsing such
that any portion of a yearly appropriation not distributed shall accumulate for distribution in subsequent years. The Department
of Health is authorized to promulgate administrative rules for the implementation hereof.”
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