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. 1-59 * * * * * 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 2-4 * * * * * 2-5 WITNESSES 2-6 FOR AGAINST ON 2-7 ___________________________________________________________________ 2-8 Name: Karen Pendel x 2-9 Representing: TRHA 2-10 City: Austin 2-11 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-12 Name: David Marwitz x 2-13 Representing: Tx Hospital Assoc. 2-14 City: Austin 2-15 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-16 Name: Julie Graves Moy x 2-17 Representing: TAFP TMA 2-18 City: Houston 2-19 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-20 Name: Shelley Roaten, Jr. MD x 2-21 Representing: 2-22 City: Waco 2-23 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-24 Name: Marcia Collins x 2-25 Representing: TX Dept of Health 2-26 City: Austin 2-27 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-28 Name: Deborah L. Greene x 2-29 Representing: THECB 2-30 City: Austin 2-31 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-32 Name: Stacey Vernon x 2-33 Representing: TX Higher Coord. Bd 2-34 City: Austin 2-35 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-36 Name: Lois Barry x 2-37 Representing: TRHA 2-38 City: Odessa 2-39 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-40 Name: Harry Wallingford x 2-41 Representing: TX Business Gp on Health 2-42 City: Austin 2-43 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-44 Name: Jim White x 2-45 Representing: Tx Academy of Family Phys. 2-46 City: Austin 2-47 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-48 Name: Claudia Siegel x 2-49 Representing: Center for Rural Health 2-50 Init. 2-51 City: Austin 2-52 -------------------------------------------------------------------