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.