Illinois Administrative Code
Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH
Part 995 - ILLINOIS REGENERATIVE MEDICINE INSTITUTE CODE
Section 995.80 - Conditions on Use and Disbursement of Grant Funds
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) The grantee is responsible for assuring that the investigators fulfill the grant requirements and the requirements for the fiscal and legal management of a project that is funded with a grant.
b) All grants shall be subject to all requirements and limitations imposed by Illinois law, including, without limitation, the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act.
c) Each institution receiving a grant shall establish an IRC to review the institution's activities during the grant period. The IRC shall meet at least quarterly and hear reports from the institution's projects. The IRC shall include scientists, ethicists and community representatives, including organizations supporting medical conditions likely to be investigated by stem cell research.
d) Project funds shall be used for the direct cost of administering, operating and maintaining a project and for an amount of indirect costs as announced by the Department in its RFA. The direct costs permitted include, but are not limited to:
e) No grant funds shall be used for facility construction or lobbying.
f) No grant funds shall be awarded to any person who knowingly purchases or sells embryonic or cadaveric fetal tissue for research purposes. (Section 45(a) of the Act) Funds may be used to pay customary medical charges for the removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transplantation or implantation of the tissue.
g) Payments for the purchase of stem cells and stem lines for the purpose of research under this Part shall be limited to payment for removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transplantation, implantation and legal transaction and other administrative costs associated with these medical procedures and shall specifically include any required payments for medical or scientific technologies, products and processes for royalties, patents, licensing fees and other costs for intellectual property.
h) Requests for budget adjustments shall be submitted to the Department in writing no later than 45 calendar days before the end of the grant agreement period.
i) No grant funds shall be disbursed for costs incurred more than two years after the start of the project period. Any grant funds not expended or legally obligated by the end of the project period shall be returned to the Department within 45 days after the end of the project period, if the funds are not already on deposit with the Department or the State Treasurer. Returned funds shall be deposited into the fund from which the original grant disbursement to the grantee was made.
j) Grant funds shall not be provided for: