81R12954 JSC-D
By: Shelton, Zerwas, Branch, Guillen, H.B. No. 2687
Morrison
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2687:
By: Branch C.S.H.B. No. 2687
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a physician residency matching grant program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 61, Education Code, is amended by adding
Subchapter I-1 to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER I-1. PHYSICIAN RESIDENCY GRANTS
Sec. 61.511. PHYSICIAN RESIDENCY MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) The board shall establish and administer the physician
residency matching grant program to provide matching grants to
eligible residency programs at health care entities, including
academic medical centers, nonprofit community hospitals, county
health systems, and community health clinics, that apply to the
board in the manner prescribed by the board.
(b) The board may provide grants only to support physician
residency positions created on or after January 1, 2010, in fields
of medicine experiencing shortages, as determined by the statewide
health coordinating council created under Chapter 104, Health and
Safety Code.
(c) The board shall award grants:
(1) based on each residency program's history or
likelihood of placing residents in underserved communities after
the residency program is completed; and
(2) in amounts that are proportional to the amount of
funding that each residency position will receive from community
collaborative groups.
(d) The board shall award grants for all residency positions
awarded a grant under this section in the preceding year before
awarding a grant for a residency position that did not receive a
grant in the preceding year.
(e) A grant received by a health care entity under this
section may be used only to pay:
(1) the faculty costs of educating a resident that are
not covered by appropriations under the graduate medical education
formula, not to exceed the average statewide faculty cost of
educating a resident as determined by the board; and
(2) the salaries of resident physicians in the
appropriate programs.
(f) The grant program may provide funding of not more than
$65,000 a year for each residency position for not more than 420
residency positions each year.
(g) In each state fiscal biennium following the 2010-2011
biennium, the amount of a grant under this section for a residency
position for which a grant was awarded under this section in the
preceding biennium may not exceed the amount of the grant for that
residency position under this section in that preceding biennium by
an amount that exceeds the increase in funding for each graduate
medical education position under the graduate medical education
formula in the applicable General Appropriations Act. Grants may
be awarded in that biennium for additional residency positions that
were not funded by grants under this section in the preceding
biennium, subject to Subsection (f).
(h) The board shall adopt rules for the administration of
this section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.