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1	1	81R12954 JSC-D
2	2	By: Shelton, Zerwas, Branch, Guillen, H.B. No. 2687
3	3	Morrison
4	4	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2687:
5	5	By: Branch C.S.H.B. No. 2687
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8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to a physician residency matching grant program.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Chapter 61, Education Code, is amended by adding
13	13	Subchapter I-1 to read as follows:
14	14	SUBCHAPTER I-1. PHYSICIAN RESIDENCY GRANTS
15	15	Sec. 61.511. PHYSICIAN RESIDENCY MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM.
16	16	(a) The board shall establish and administer the physician
17	17	residency matching grant program to provide matching grants to
18	18	eligible residency programs at health care entities, including
19	19	academic medical centers, nonprofit community hospitals, county
20	20	health systems, and community health clinics, that apply to the
21	21	board in the manner prescribed by the board.
22	22	(b) The board may provide grants only to support physician
23	23	residency positions created on or after January 1, 2010, in fields
24	24	of medicine experiencing shortages, as determined by the statewide
25	25	health coordinating council created under Chapter 104, Health and
26	26	Safety Code.
27	27	(c) The board shall award grants:
28	28	(1) based on each residency program's history or
29	29	likelihood of placing residents in underserved communities after
30	30	the residency program is completed; and
31	31	(2) in amounts that are proportional to the amount of
32	32	funding that each residency position will receive from community
33	33	collaborative groups.
34	34	(d) The board shall award grants for all residency positions
35	35	awarded a grant under this section in the preceding year before
36	36	awarding a grant for a residency position that did not receive a
37	37	grant in the preceding year.
38	38	(e) A grant received by a health care entity under this
39	39	section may be used only to pay:
40	40	(1) the faculty costs of educating a resident that are
41	41	not covered by appropriations under the graduate medical education
42	42	formula, not to exceed the average statewide faculty cost of
43	43	educating a resident as determined by the board; and
44	44	(2) the salaries of resident physicians in the
45	45	appropriate programs.
46	46	(f) The grant program may provide funding of not more than
47	47	$65,000 a year for each residency position for not more than 420
48	48	residency positions each year.
49	49	(g) In each state fiscal biennium following the 2010-2011
50	50	biennium, the amount of a grant under this section for a residency
51	51	position for which a grant was awarded under this section in the
52	52	preceding biennium may not exceed the amount of the grant for that
53	53	residency position under this section in that preceding biennium by
54	54	an amount that exceeds the increase in funding for each graduate
55	55	medical education position under the graduate medical education
56	56	formula in the applicable General Appropriations Act. Grants may
57	57	be awarded in that biennium for additional residency positions that
58	58	were not funded by grants under this section in the preceding
59	59	biennium, subject to Subsection (f).
60	60	(h) The board shall adopt rules for the administration of
61	61	this section.
62	62	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.