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.