Amend HB 2626 by adding the following appropriately numbered
SECTIONS and renumbering the remaining Sections of the bill
accordingly:
      SECTION ____. Section 51.918(b), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
      (b)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall:
            (1)  encourage and coordinate the creation or expansion
of a rural preceptor program among medical schools, teaching
hospitals, nursing schools, and schools of allied health sciences;
and
            (2)  require family practice residency programs to
provide an opportunity for residents to have a one-month rotation
through:
                  (A)  a rural setting; and
                  (B)  a public health setting.
      SECTION ____. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
shall require a family practice residency program to conform to
Section 51.918(b), Education Code, as amended by this Act, as soon
as practicable after the effective date of this Act without causing
undue disruption in the curriculum of a student in a family
practice residency program on the effective date.