H-3657              _______________________________________________

                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 2443

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Representatives O'Brien, Jacobsen, Prince, Anderson, Heavey, Crane, Valle, Winsley, Moyer, P. King, Todd, Day, Rector, Wood, Wineberry and R. King

Read first time 1/12/90 and referred to Committee on Higher Education.

AN ACT Relating to the Warren G. Magnuson institute for biomedical research and health professions training; and adding a new section to chapter 28B.20 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28B.20 RCW to read as follows:

          The Warren G. Magnuson institute for biomedical research and health professions training is hereby established within the Warren G. Magnuson health sciences center at the University of Washington.  It is the sole purpose of the institute to receive funds, from either public or private sources, that will be deposited within the permanent endowment fund of the university and held in trust, with any earnings thereon each year to be used at the University of Washington for the following purposes:

          (1) All earnings on the first one million dollars in endowment funds credited to the institute shall be expended, at the direction of the dean of the school of medicine, in support of one or more individuals engaged in biomedical research into the causes of, the treatments for, or the management of diabetes.

          (2) All earnings on the next five hundred thousand dollars shall be dedicated to providing financial assistance, including training grants or fellowships, to students in training programs at the postgraduate level who are enrolled in one of the health professions schools at the university:  Medicine, nursing, public health and community medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and social work.  At least one such student at all times shall be in a career pathway preparing for or engaged in research related to diabetes, its antecedents or complications.

          The individual recipients of these awards shall be jointly selected, on the basis of need as well as merit or ability, by representatives of all the health professions schools at the university and in such manner that, during a period of not more than five years, the students receiving awards enrolled in each of the several schools reflect the proportion of students that each school has to the total enrolled at that time in postgraduate level training programs in all the schools.

          (3) Any earnings on the amount of endowment funds credited to the institute in excess of one million five hundred thousand dollars shall be divided and expended as follows:

          (a) At least one-third dedicated, at the direction of the dean of the school of medicine, to the support of individual biomedical research projects into the causes of, the treatment for, or the management of Parkinson's disease, osteoporosis, or any other disease or medical disorder where the achievement of a significant result in the near term is especially promising.

          (b) At least one-third dedicated to the purposes set forth in subsections (1) and (2) of this section and allocated between them each year as found to be appropriate by the dean of the school of medicine.

          (c) Up to one-third dedicated to whatever purpose or purposes the deans of the school of medicine, the school of nursing, and the school of public health and community medicine may jointly agree each year will most likely enhance the training, research, and public service missions, as well as be in the best interests of the students and faculty, of all the health sciences schools at the University of Washington.

          Should any particular donor wish to earmark his or her contribution to an objective not included within those set forth in this section, the acceptance or rejection of such conditions shall be the sole responsibility of the vice-president for health sciences at the University of Washington.