The Bill has passed the appropriations committee and will now move onto the Assembly floor. There were some changes made to the Bill. From the press release:
...Removing perjury – Replace criminal penalties for perjury with civil penalties. There are now no criminal penalties in the bill. Opponents had misrepresented this provision, and a civil penalty serves well as a deterrent against lying to the government.
Eliminating the FMD – Remove the proposed new state regulatory body (formerly the Frontier Model Division, or FMD). SB 1047’s enforcement wa
Wow, my intuition was that it was really hard to get mentors onboard with supervising scholars given time constraints most senior researchers have, so seeing 87 mentors apply feels is wild!