AB 2192: State-funded research: grant requirements.

The California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act, until January 1, 2020, establishes publication requirements for a grantee receiving funding from the State Department of Public Health. The act requires the department to include specified terms and conditions in a research grant, which are required to be adhered to by the grantee as a condition of receiving the grant. These conditions include a requirement that grantees report and make certain information available to the department or the public, as specified, about any published manuscript concerning their research not later than 12 months after publication. For a manuscript accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, existing law requires the grantee to ensure that an electronic version of the peer-reviewed manuscript is available on an appropriate publicly accessible database approved by the department, including the California Digital Open Source Library.

This bill would expand the scope of the act to include research grants provided in whole or in part by any state agency within the executive branch, as specified. The bill would specify that the public availability requirements apply only to peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publication. The bill would require the grantee to ensure that the peer-reviewed manuscript is available to the state agency on an appropriate publicly accessible repository approved by that agency and would eliminate the references to the California Digital Open Source Library. The bill would also extend the operation of these provisions indefinitely.