(a) The Centennial Scholars Matching Fund is created at the medical branch to recognize the historic role the medical branch has played in contributing to medical research and scholarship and to encourage the further development of that role by enhancing the recruitment and retention of eminent medical scholars and researchers.
(b) The fund shall consist of gifts, grants, and donations from private sources, appropriations from the legislature, and income earned on money in the fund.
(c) The legislature may appropriate to the fund an amount not to exceed the amount of gifts, grants, and donations paid to the fund from private sources during the preceding biennium. The legislature shall not appropriate any state funds to the fund after the year 1992.
(d) Repealed by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1312, Sec. 99(6), eff. September 1, 2013.