By Delisi H.B. No. 1647 75R5333 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to opportunities for family practice resident medical 1-3 students to work in a public health setting. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.918(b), Education Code, is amended to read 1-6 as follows: 1-7 (b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall: 1-8 (1) encourage and coordinate the creation or expansion 1-9 of a rural preceptor program among medical schools, teaching 1-10 hospitals, nursing schools, and schools of allied health sciences; 1-11 and 1-12 (2) require family practice residency programs to 1-13 provide an opportunity for residents to have a one-month rotation 1-14 through: 1-15 (A) a rural setting; and 1-16 (B) a public health setting. 1-17 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-18 (b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall 1-19 require a family practice residency program to conform to the 1-20 change in law made by this Act as soon as practicable after the 1-21 effective date of this Act without causing undue disruption in the 1-22 curriculum of a student in a family practice residency program on 1-23 the effective date. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.