85R414 KSD-D
By: White H.B. No. 123
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to performance incentive funding for certain medical
schools based on public health impact.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 61.0597 to read as follows:
Sec. 61.0597. MEDICAL SCHOOL PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE
FUNDING. (a) In this section, "medical school" means a medical
school that is part of The University of Texas System, the Texas
Tech University System, The Texas A&M University System, or the
University of North Texas System, or the Baylor College of
Medicine.
(b) In consultation with the Health and Human Services
Commission, the board with the assistance of the advisory committee
appointed under Subsection (e) biennially shall develop a plan for
distributing performance incentive funds appropriated for that
purpose for the next state fiscal biennium to medical schools based
on each medical school's success in improving the delivery of
health services and improving health conditions of persons in the
service region of the medical school.
(c) A plan developed under this section must:
(1) define the geographic service region for each
medical school so that all the territory of this state is included
in a service region; and
(2) include recommendations for the performance
measures and related formulas on which distributions to medical
schools of any performance incentive funds appropriated by the
legislature for the next state fiscal biennium would be based.
(d) In defining the service region for a medical school
under Subsection (c)(1), the board:
(1) shall attempt to include areas that:
(A) are in geographic proximity to the medical
school; and
(B) benefit from being served by the medical
school; and
(2) may establish a single region for two or more
medical schools if the board determines that the medical schools
serve primarily the same areas.
(e) The board shall establish an advisory committee to
assist the board in administering this section. Membership on the
committee must:
(1) to the greatest extent practicable, reflect a
balanced representation of:
(A) the geographic regions of this state; and
(B) municipalities and counties in this state of
high, medium, and low population; and
(2) include:
(A) members appointed by the governor,
lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives;
(B) members who are medical professionals,
including nurses, nurse practitioners, mental health providers,
pediatricians, primary care physicians, and public school nurses;
and
(C) members who represent the interests of senior
citizens, veterans, children, the adult criminal justice and
juvenile justice communities, the health insurance industry, the
health care free market, public and private hospitals, and
charitable foundations with a presence in health care.
(f) The chair of each standing legislative committee with
primary jurisdiction over criminal justice, juvenile justice,
public health, appropriations, health and human services, county
affairs, or higher education, as determined by the presiding
officer of each house, serves as an ex officio member of the
advisory committee appointed under Subsection (e).
(g) The members of the advisory committee appointed under
Subsection (e) serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed
by the board for actual expenses incurred in the performance of
duties as members of the committee.
(h) Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year,
the board shall submit the plan developed for the next state fiscal
biennium under this section to the legislature. The legislature
may appropriate performance incentive funds for distribution to
medical schools for the next fiscal biennium based on the plan.
SECTION 2. 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, 2017.