1-1 By: Sibley, Lucio S.B. No. 426
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 1993; February 23, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 March 3, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-5 Nays 0; March 3, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Ratliff x
1-9 Haley x
1-10 Barrientos x
1-11 Bivins x
1-12 Harris of Tarrant x
1-13 Luna x
1-14 Montford x
1-15 Shapiro x
1-16 Sibley x
1-17 Turner x
1-18 Zaffirini x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to family practice residency training pilot programs.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
1-24 amended by adding Section 61.506 to read as follows:
1-25 Sec. 61.506. FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENCY TRAINING PILOT
1-26 PROGRAMS. (a) The Family Practice Residency Advisory Committee
1-27 and a statewide advisory committee established by the Texas Board
1-28 of Health under Section 31.017, Health and Safety Code, shall work
1-29 together to enhance approved family practice residency programs and
1-30 to establish three pilot programs to provide a major source of
1-31 indigent health care and also to train family practice resident
1-32 physicians.
1-33 (b) Each of the three pilot programs must be located in an
1-34 area that reflects the diversity of this state.
1-35 (c) An approved family practice residency program that wants
1-36 to participate in or sponsor a pilot program must make a proposal
1-37 to the advisory committees.
1-38 (d) The advisory committees shall review all proposals
1-39 submitted under Subsection (c) of this section and shall recommend
1-40 to the board approved family practice residency programs to
1-41 participate in or sponsor pilot programs.
1-42 (e) The board shall select approved family practice
1-43 residency programs to participate in or sponsor pilot programs on
1-44 the basis of each program's commitment to indigent health care and
1-45 to training family practice resident physicians.
1-46 SECTION 2. Not later than February 1, 1995, the Texas Higher
1-47 Education Coordinating Board shall report to each house of the 74th
1-48 Legislature on the allocation of funds to the pilot programs
1-49 established under Section 61.506, Education Code, and on the
1-50 progress of those programs in training family practice resident
1-51 physicians and in providing indigent health care.
1-52 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-53 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-54 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-55 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-56 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-57 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-58 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-60 Austin,
1-61 Texas
1-62 March 3, 1993
1-63 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-64 President of the Senate
1-65 Sir:
1-66 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No. 426,
1-67 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-68 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-1 pass and be printed.
2-2 Ratliff,
2-3 Chairman
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2-5 WITNESSES
2-6 FOR AGAINST ON
2-7 ___________________________________________________________________
2-8 Name: Karen Pendel x
2-9 Representing: TRHA
2-10 City: Austin
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2-12 Name: David Marwitz x
2-13 Representing: Tx Hospital Assoc.
2-14 City: Austin
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2-16 Name: Julie Graves Moy x
2-17 Representing: TAFP TMA
2-18 City: Houston
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2-20 Name: Shelley Roaten, Jr. MD x
2-21 Representing:
2-22 City: Waco
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2-24 Name: Marcia Collins x
2-25 Representing: TX Dept of Health
2-26 City: Austin
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2-28 Name: Deborah L. Greene x
2-29 Representing: THECB
2-30 City: Austin
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2-32 Name: Stacey Vernon x
2-33 Representing: TX Higher Coord. Bd
2-34 City: Austin
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2-36 Name: Lois Barry x
2-37 Representing: TRHA
2-38 City: Odessa
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2-40 Name: Harry Wallingford x
2-41 Representing: TX Business Gp on Health
2-42 City: Austin
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2-44 Name: Jim White x
2-45 Representing: Tx Academy of Family Phys.
2-46 City: Austin
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2-48 Name: Claudia Siegel x
2-49 Representing: Center for Rural Health
2-50 Init.
2-51 City: Austin
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