1. (a) The oversight committee shall establish standards requiring all grant awards to be subject to an intellectual property agreement that allows this state to collect royalties, income, and other benefits, including interest or proceeds resulting from securities and equity ownership, realized as a result of projects undertaken with grant money awarded under this chapter.
2. (b) In determining this state's interest in any intellectual property rights, the oversight committee shall balance the opportunity of this state to benefit from the patents, royalties, licenses, and other benefits that result from basic research, therapy development, and clinical trials with the need to ensure that essential medical research is not unreasonably hindered by the intellectual property agreement and that the agreement does not unreasonably remove the incentive of the individual researcher, research team, or institution.
3. (c) The oversight committee may authorize the institute to execute a contract with one or more qualified third parties for assistance with the management, accounting, and disposition of this state's interest in securities, equities, royalties, income, and other benefits realized from grant money awarded under this chapter. The institute shall implement practices and procedures for the management, accounting, and disposition of securities, equities, royalties, income, and other benefits the institute determines are in this state's best interest.

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 137 (S.B. 5), Sec. 1, eff. December 1, 2025, subject to resolution of an election contest under Chapter 233, Election Code, relating to Article III, Section 68, Texas Constitution.