Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB56 Compare Versions

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1	1	84R2079 JSL-F
2	2	By: Nelson S.B. No. 56
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the resident physician expansion grant program.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Sections 61.511(a), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (j),
10	10	Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
11	11	(a) The board shall administer the Resident Physician
12	12	Expansion Grant Program [as a competitive grant program] to
13	13	encourage the creation of new graduate medical education positions
14	14	through community collaboration and innovative funding. The board
15	15	shall award grants to new or existing physician residency programs
16	16	at teaching hospitals and other appropriate health care entities
17	17	according to the program criteria established under Subsections (b)
18	18	and (i).
19	19	(c) The board may provide grants only to support a residency
20	20	position that:
21	21	(1) is created and accredited on or after July
22	22	[January] 1, 2016 [2014]; or
23	23	(2) was created and accredited before July [January]
24	24	1, 2015 [2013], but as of that date had not yet been filled.
25	25	(d) A grant award may be used only to pay direct costs
26	26	associated with the position, including the creation and
27	27	maintenance of the position and the salary of the resident
28	28	physician.
29	29	(e) Each grant application must specify:
30	30	(1) the number of residency positions expected to be
31	31	created or maintained with the grant money; and
32	32	(2) the grant amount requested for each year.
33	33	(f) The board by rule shall ensure that [award] grants are
34	34	awarded for each [all] residency position for which a grant was
35	35	[positions] awarded [a grant under this section] in the preceding
36	36	year [before awarding a grant for a residency position that did not
37	37	receive a grant in the preceding year], until the resident in that
38	38	position in the preceding year has completed the requirements of
39	39	the position and provided that the applicable grant recipient from
40	40	the preceding year complies with all conditions of the grant as
41	41	described by Subsection (g).
42	42	(j) Not later than March [January] 1 of each even-numbered
43	43	year, the board shall prepare and submit to the governor, the
44	44	lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives,
45	45	the standing committees of the senate and house of representatives
46	46	with responsibility for oversight of health and human services
47	47	issues, and the Legislative Budget Board a report that:
48	48	(1) specifies each of the following with respect to
49	49	the preceding program year:
50	50	(A) the number of grants awarded under the
51	51	program;
52	52	(B) the amount of each grant awarded under the
53	53	program;
54	54	(C) the number of residency positions created
55	55	with the support of grant money;
56	56	(D) the medical specialty of the residency
57	57	positions created; and
58	58	(E) whether physicians who complete their
59	59	training through residency positions created under the program
60	60	choose to practice in this state and which medical specialties they
61	61	choose for their practices; and
62	62	(2) makes appropriate recommendations for legislative
63	63	changes as necessary.
64	64	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.