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.