Legislative Update Archive

On May 15, 2009, UTMB President David Callender hosted a community town hall meeting to discuss pending state legislation related to information about research and security in campus laboratories working with federally regulated select agents. You can view a replay of that meeting here. On May 31, the Texas State Senate gave final approval to SB 1182, a conference report which contained language regarding select agents as revised and updated with input from the Galveston community. This language, signed into law by the governor on June 19, will affect all facilities housing select agents in Texas. The full text of that conference report can her found here. Related news articles can be found here. Community attention to and feedback on this legislation was valuable and sincerely appreciated. — Archived September 2009