82R20921 JRJ-F
By: Zerwas, et al. H.B. No. 2546
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2546:
By: Kolkhorst C.S.H.B. No. 2546
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Texas emergency and trauma care education
partnership program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 61, Education Code, is amended by adding
Subchapter GG to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER GG. TEXAS EMERGENCY AND TRAUMA CARE EDUCATION
PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
Sec. 61.9801. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
(1) "Emergency and trauma care education partnership"
means a partnership that:
(A) consists of one or more hospitals in this
state and one or more graduate professional nursing or graduate
medical education programs in this state; and
(B) serves to increase training opportunities in
emergency and trauma care for doctors and registered nurses at
participating graduate medical education and graduate professional
nursing programs.
(2) "Participating education program" means a
graduate professional nursing program as that term is defined by
Section 54.221 or a graduate medical education program leading to
board certification by the American Board of Medical Specialties
that participates in an emergency and trauma care education
partnership.
Sec. 61.9802. PROGRAM: ESTABLISHMENT; ADMINISTRATION;
PURPOSE. (a) The Texas emergency and trauma care education
partnership program is established.
(b) The board shall administer the program in accordance
with this subchapter and rules adopted under this subchapter.
(c) Under the program, to the extent funds are available
under Section 61.9805, the board shall make grants to emergency and
trauma care education partnerships to assist those partnerships to
meet the state's needs for doctors and registered nurses with
training in emergency and trauma care by offering one-year or
two-year fellowships to students enrolled in graduate professional
nursing or graduate medical education programs through
collaboration between hospitals and graduate professional nursing
or graduate medical education programs and the use of the existing
expertise and facilities of those hospitals and programs.
Sec. 61.9803. GRANTS: CONDITIONS; LIMITATIONS. (a) The
board may make a grant under this subchapter to an emergency and
trauma care education partnership only if the board determines
that:
(1) the partnership will meet applicable standards for
instruction and student competency for each program offered by each
participating education program;
(2) each participating education program will, as a
result of the partnership, enroll in the education program a
sufficient number of additional students as established by the
board;
(3) each hospital participating in an emergency and
trauma care education partnership will provide to students enrolled
in a participating education program clinical placements that:
(A) allow the students to take part in providing
or to observe, as appropriate, emergency and trauma care services
offered by the hospital; and
(B) meet the clinical education needs of the
students; and
(4) the partnership will satisfy any other requirement
established by board rule.
(b) A grant under this subchapter may be spent only on
costs related to the development or operation of an emergency and
trauma care education partnership that prepares a student to
complete a graduate professional nursing program with a specialty
focus on emergency and trauma care or earn board certification by
the American Board of Medical Specialties.
Sec. 61.9804. PRIORITY FOR FUNDING. In awarding a grant
under this subchapter, the board shall give priority to an
emergency and trauma care education partnership that submits a
proposal that:
(1) provides for collaborative educational models
between one or more participating hospitals and one or more
participating education programs that have signed a memorandum of
understanding or other written agreement under which the
participants agree to comply with standards established by the
board, including any standards the board may establish that:
(A) provide for program management that offers a
centralized decision-making process allowing for inclusion of each
entity participating in the partnership;
(B) provide for access to clinical training
positions for students in graduate professional nursing and
graduate medical education programs that are not participating in
the partnership; and
(C) specify the details of any requirement
relating to a student in a participating education program being
employed after graduation in a hospital participating in the
partnership, including any details relating to the employment of
students who do not complete the program, are not offered a position
at the hospital, or choose to pursue other employment;
(2) includes a demonstrable education model to:
(A) increase the number of students enrolled in,
the number of students graduating from, and the number of faculty
employed by each participating education program; and
(B) improve student or resident retention in each
participating education program;
(3) indicates the availability of money to match a
portion of the grant money, including matching money or in-kind
services approved by the board from a hospital, private or
nonprofit entity, or institution of higher education;
(4) can be replicated by other emergency and trauma
care education partnerships or other graduate professional nursing
or graduate medical education programs; and
(5) includes plans for sustainability of the
partnership.
Sec. 61.9805. GRANTS, GIFTS, AND DONATIONS. In addition to
money appropriated by the legislature, the board may solicit,
accept, and spend grants, gifts, and donations from any public or
private source for the purposes of this subchapter.
Sec. 61.9806. RULES. The board shall adopt rules for the
administration of the Texas emergency and trauma care education
partnership program. The rules must include:
(1) provisions relating to applying for a grant under
this subchapter; and
(2) standards of accountability consistent with other
graduate professional nursing and graduate medical education
programs to be met by any emergency and trauma care education
partnership awarded a grant under this subchapter.
Sec. 61.9807. ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS. A reasonable amount,
not to exceed three percent, of any money appropriated for purposes
of this subchapter may be used to pay the costs of administering
this subchapter.
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
adopt rules for the implementation and administration of the Texas
emergency and trauma care education partnership program
established under Subchapter GG, Chapter 61, Education Code, as
added by this Act. The board may adopt the initial rules in the
manner provided by law for emergency rules.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2011.