BILL NUMBER: AB 714	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 2, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wieckowski
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Harkey   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act relating to the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research
Fund, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 714, as amended, Wieckowski. Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury
Research Fund.
   Existing law, the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of
1999, authorizes the University of California to establish a spinal
cord injury research fund, independent of the State Treasury, to
accept public and private funds for purposes of spinal cord injury
research, as specified.
   This bill would appropriate $1,000,000 from the General Fund to
the spinal cord injury research fund authorized by the act.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to
the spinal cord injury research fund authorized  by 
 pursuant to  the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research
Act of 1999 the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000).