1-1  By:  Sibley, Bivins, Lucio                             S.B. No. 218
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 1, 1993; February 2, 1993,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
    1-4  March 3, 1993, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 3, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Ratliff            x                               
    1-9        Haley              x                               
   1-10        Barrientos         x                               
   1-11        Bivins             x                               
   1-12        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-13        Luna               x                               
   1-14        Montford           x                               
   1-15        Shapiro            x                               
   1-16        Sibley             x                               
   1-17        Turner             x                               
   1-18        Zaffirini          x                               
   1-19  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Sibley
   1-20        Amend S.B. No. 218 as follows:
   1-21        (1)  Immediately before the existing SECTION 2, add a new
   1-22  SECTION 2 to read as follows:
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 61.537, Education Code,
   1-24  is amended to read as follows:
   1-25        (a)  The coordinating board shall adopt rules necessary for
   1-26  the administration of this subchapter, including a rule that sets a
   1-27  maximum amount of repayment assistance that may be received by a
   1-28  physician in one year and a rule that authorizes the Family
   1-29  Practice Residency Advisory Committee to establish priorities among
   1-30  eligible physicians for repayment assistance.
   1-31        (2)  Renumber the existing SECTION 2 as SECTION 3.
   1-32                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-33                                AN ACT
   1-34  relating to loan repayment assistance for certain family practice
   1-35  physicians.
   1-36        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-37        SECTION 1.  Section 61.532, Education Code, is amended to
   1-38  read as follows:
   1-39        Sec. 61.532.  Eligibility.  (a)  To be eligible to receive
   1-40  repayment assistance, a physician must apply to the coordinating
   1-41  board and have completed at least one year of medical practice:
   1-42              (1)  in private practice in an economically depressed
   1-43  or rural medically underserved area of the state; <or>
   1-44              (2)  for one of the following state agencies:
   1-45                    (A)  Texas Department of Health;
   1-46                    (B)  Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
   1-47  Retardation;
   1-48                    (C)  Texas Department of Corrections; or
   1-49                    (D)  Texas Youth Commission; or
   1-50              (3)  for an approved family practice residency training
   1-51  program established under Subchapter I of this chapter.
   1-52        (b)  The coordinating board may by rule provide for repayment
   1-53  assistance on a pro rata basis for physicians practicing part-time
   1-54  for an approved family practice residency training program
   1-55  established under Subchapter I of this chapter or a state agency
   1-56  specified in Subsection (a) of this section.
   1-57        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-58  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-59  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-60  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-61  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-62  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-63  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-65                                                         Austin,
   1-66  Texas
   1-67                                                         March 3, 1993
   1-68  Hon. Bob Bullock
    2-1  President of the Senate
    2-2  Sir:
    2-3  We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No. 218,
    2-4  have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
    2-5  report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
    2-6  pass, as amended, and be printed.
    2-7                                                         Ratliff,
    2-8  Chairman
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   2-10                               WITNESSES
   2-11                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   2-12  ___________________________________________________________________
   2-13  Name:  Shelley Roaten, Jr. M.D.                  x
   2-14  Representing:  Family Practice Residency
   2-15      Pg.
   2-16  City:  Waco
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   2-18  Name:  Claudia Siegel                                          x
   2-19  Representing:  Center for Rural Health
   2-20      Init.
   2-21  City:
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   2-23  Name:  Jim White                                 x
   2-24  Representing:  TX Academy of Family Phys.
   2-25  City:  Austin
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   2-27  Name:  Harry Wallingford                         x
   2-28  Representing:  TX Business Gp on Health
   2-29  City:  Austin
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   2-31  Name:  Mack C. Adams                                           x
   2-32  Representing:  Coor. Board
   2-33  City:  Austin
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   2-35  Name:  Julie Graves Moy                          x
   2-36  Representing:  TAFP TMA
   2-37  City:  Houston
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   2-39  Name:  Karen Lindale                             x
   2-40  Representing:  TRHA
   2-41  City:  Austin
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   2-43  Name:  Lois Barry                                x
   2-44  Representing:  TRHA
   2-45  City:  Odessa
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   2-47  Name:  David Marwitz                             x
   2-48  Representing:  TX Hospital Assoc.
   2-49  City:  Austin
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