The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (Institute), formerly the Texas Cancer Council, proposes the repeal of §§703.1 - 703.14, concerning project contracts and grants. The 2007 Legislature enacted House Bill 14, which amended Chapter 102 of the Health and Safety Code, abolished the Texas Cancer Council, created the Institute, and provided rulemaking authority to the Institute's Oversight Committee. The 2009 Legislature enacted House Bill 1358, which expressly directs the Institute's Oversight Committee to adopt rules regarding the procedure for making grant awards by the Institute. The rules currently in Chapter 703 are not adequate to address the rules required by the law. The matters addressed by the repealed provisions will be incorporated into a new Chapter 703. The sections of new Chapter 703 are proposed in this issue of the Texas Register.

Kristen Pauling Doyle, General Counsel for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, has determined that for the first five-year period the repeal is in effect there will be no foreseeable implications relating to costs or revenues for state or local government as a result of enforcing or administering the repeal.

Ms. Doyle also has determined that for each year of the first five years the repeal is in effect the public benefit anticipated as a result of enforcing the repeal will be clarification of the policies and procedures the Institute will follow to implement its statutory duties. There are no anticipated economic costs to persons who are required to comply with the repeal as proposed.

Ms. Doyle has determined that the repeal shall not have an effect on small businesses or micro businesses.

Comments on the proposed repeal may be submitted to Kristen Pauling Doyle, General Counsel, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, P.O. Box 12097, Austin, Texas 78711.

The repeal is proposed under the authority of the Texas Health and Safety Code Annotated, §102.108 and §102.251, which provide the Institute with rulemaking authority and to adopt rules relating to grant award procedures.

There is no other statute, article, or code that is affected by this proposed repeal.