By Rangel H.B. No. 2310 74R6921 JSA-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 61.507 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 61.507. BORDER-AREA FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENCY TRAINING 1-7 PILOT PROGRAMS. (a) The Family Practice Residency Advisory 1-8 Committee shall establish three pilot programs to provide a major 1-9 source of indigent health care and to train family practice 1-10 resident physicians. 1-11 (b) Each of the three pilot programs must be located in an 1-12 area along the Texas-Mexico border. 1-13 (c) An approved family practice residency program that wants 1-14 to participate in or sponsor a pilot program must make a proposal 1-15 to the advisory committee. 1-16 (d) The advisory committee shall review all proposals 1-17 submitted under Subsection (c) and shall recommend to the board 1-18 approved or new family practice residency programs to participate 1-19 in or sponsor the pilot programs. 1-20 (e) The board shall select approved or new family practice 1-21 residency programs to participate in or sponsor the pilot programs 1-22 on the basis of each program's commitment to indigent health care 1-23 and to training family practice resident physicians. 1-24 SECTION 2. Not later than February 1, 1997, the Texas Higher 2-1 Education Coordinating Board shall report to each house of the 75th 2-2 Legislature on the allocation of funds to the pilot programs 2-3 established under Section 61.507, Education Code, as added by this 2-4 Act, and on the progress of those programs in training family 2-5 practice resident physicians and in providing indigent health care. 2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.