By:  Sibley                                            S.B. No. 218
       73R3197 SOS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to loan repayment assistance for certain family practice
    1-3  physicians.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 61.532, Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 61.532.  Eligibility.  (a)  To be eligible to receive
    1-8  repayment assistance, a physician must apply to the coordinating
    1-9  board and have completed at least one year of medical practice:
   1-10              (1)  in private practice in an economically depressed
   1-11  or rural medically underserved area of the state; <or>
   1-12              (2)  for one of the following state agencies:
   1-13                    (A)  Texas Department of Health;
   1-14                    (B)  Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
   1-15  Retardation;
   1-16                    (C)  Texas Department of Corrections; or
   1-17                    (D)  Texas Youth Commission; or
   1-18              (3)  for an approved family practice residency training
   1-19  program established under Subchapter I of this chapter.
   1-20        (b)  The coordinating board may by rule provide for repayment
   1-21  assistance on a pro rata basis for physicians practicing part-time
   1-22  for an approved family practice residency training program
   1-23  established under Subchapter I of this chapter or a state agency
   1-24  specified in Subsection (a) of this section.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.