By:  Sibley, Lucio                                     S.B. No. 426
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to family practice residency training pilot programs.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
    1-4  amended by adding Section 61.506 to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 61.506.  FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENCY TRAINING PILOT
    1-6  PROGRAMS.  (a)  The Family Practice Residency Advisory Committee
    1-7  and a statewide advisory committee established by the Texas Board
    1-8  of Health under Section 31.017, Health and Safety Code, shall work
    1-9  together to enhance approved family practice residency programs and
   1-10  to establish three pilot programs to provide a major source of
   1-11  indigent health care and also to train family practice resident
   1-12  physicians.
   1-13        (b)  Each of the three pilot programs must be located in an
   1-14  area that reflects the diversity of this state.
   1-15        (c)  An approved family practice residency program that wants
   1-16  to participate in or sponsor a pilot program must make a proposal
   1-17  to the advisory committees.
   1-18        (d)  The advisory committees shall review all proposals
   1-19  submitted under Subsection (c) of this section and shall recommend
   1-20  to the board approved family practice residency programs to
   1-21  participate in or sponsor pilot programs.
   1-22        (e)  The board shall select approved family practice
   1-23  residency programs to participate in or sponsor pilot programs on
   1-24  the basis of each program's commitment to indigent health care and
    2-1  to training family practice resident physicians.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  Not later than February 1, 1995, the Texas Higher
    2-3  Education Coordinating Board shall report to each house of the 74th
    2-4  Legislature on the allocation of funds to the pilot programs
    2-5  established under Section 61.506, Education Code, and on the
    2-6  progress of those programs in training family practice resident
    2-7  physicians and in providing indigent health care.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-14  passage, and it is so enacted.