By Sibley S.B. No. 913
75R7736 CAG-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the medically underserved community-state matching
1-3 incentive program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 46.002(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) A medically underserved community may sponsor a
1-8 physician who has completed a primary care residency program
1-9 [within seven years of application to this program] and has agreed
1-10 to provide primary care in the community by contributing to
1-11 start-up money for the physician and having that contribution
1-12 matched in whole or in part by state money appropriated to the
1-13 board for that purpose.
1-14 SECTION 2. Section 46.004, Health and Safety Code, is
1-15 amended to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 46.004. RULES. The board shall adopt rules necessary
1-17 for the administration of this chapter, including:
1-18 (1) eligibility criteria for a medically underserved
1-19 community;
1-20 (2) eligibility criteria for a physician;
1-21 (3) minimum and maximum community contributions to the
1-22 start-up money for a physician to be matched with state money;
1-23 (4) conditions under which state money must be repaid
1-24 by a community or physician;
2-1 (5) procedures for disbursement of money by the board;
2-2 (6) the form and manner in which a community must make
2-3 its contribution to the start-up money; and
2-4 (7) the contents of an agreement to be entered into by
2-5 the parties to include at least:
2-6 (A) a credit check for an eligible physician;
2-7 and
2-8 (B) community retention of interest in any
2-9 property, equipment, or durable goods for seven years[; and]
2-10 [(C) the requirement of full-time clinical
2-11 practice for participating physicians].
2-12 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-13 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.