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
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    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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