S.B. No. 426 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 (f) The advisory committees shall use the financial reports, 2-3 audits, and performance evaluations currently required under this 2-4 subchapter and under Section 31.015, Health and Safety Code, to 2-5 assess annually the financial feasibility and effective performance 2-6 of the pilot programs. The advisory committees may require 2-7 additional reports as necessary. 2-8 (g) The advisory committees shall send copies of their 2-9 annual assessment of the pilot programs to the comptroller and the 2-10 state auditor for review. 2-11 (h) If the advisory committees determine that a pilot 2-12 program is not financially feasible or that it does not perform 2-13 effectively, the advisory committees shall recommend to the board 2-14 discontinuation of funding for the pilot program. 2-15 SECTION 2. Not later than February 1, 1995, the Texas Higher 2-16 Education Coordinating Board shall report to each house of the 74th 2-17 Legislature on the allocation of funds to the pilot programs 2-18 established under Section 61.506, Education Code, and on the 2-19 progress of those programs in training family practice resident 2-20 physicians and in providing indigent health care. 2-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-27 passage, and it is so enacted.