(a) Pursuant to Section 439.904, state agencies shall, and it is the intent of the Legislature that the University of California, include, in appropriate periodic progress reports required under existing law, data on the extent to which state funds administered by those agencies and the University of California, or both, are used by grantees to support research on diseases, disorders, and health conditions that includes women and minorities in the research trials, and that studies diseases, disorders, and health conditions of particular concern to women and minorities.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that research shall include, but not be limited to, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, HIV and AIDS, sickle-cell anemia, obesity, mental illness, arthritis, and osteoporosis.
(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 250, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)