By: Sibley S.B. No. 426 73R5208 SOS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to family practice residency training pilot programs. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 61, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 61.506 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 61.506. FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENCY TRAINING PILOT 1-7 PROGRAMS. (a) The Family Practice Residency Advisory Committee 1-8 and a statewide advisory committee established by the Texas 1-9 Department of Health under Section 31.017, Health and Safety Code, 1-10 shall work together to enhance approved family practice residency 1-11 programs and to establish three pilot programs to provide a major 1-12 source of indigent health care but also to train family practice 1-13 resident physicians. 1-14 (b) Each of the three pilot programs must be located in an 1-15 area that reflects the diversity of this state. 1-16 (c) An approved family practice residency program that wants 1-17 to participate in or sponsor a pilot program must make a proposal 1-18 to the advisory committees. 1-19 (d) The advisory committees shall review all proposals 1-20 submitted under Subsection (c) of this section and shall recommend 1-21 to the board approved family practice residency programs to 1-22 participate in or sponsor pilot programs. 1-23 (e) The board shall select approved family practice 1-24 residency programs to participate in or sponsor pilot programs on 2-1 the basis of the program's commitment to indigent health care and 2-2 to training family practice resident physicians. 2-3 SECTION 2. Not later than February 1, 1995, the Texas Higher 2-4 Education Coordinating Board shall report to each house of the 74th 2-5 Legislature on the allocation of funds to the pilot programs 2-6 established under Section 61.506, Education Code, and on the 2-7 progress of those programs in training family practice resident 2-8 physicians and in providing indigent health care. 2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.