Amend CSHB 1018 (senate committee printing) as follows: (1) Strike SECTION 1 of the bill (page 1, lines 13 through 21) and substitute the following appropriately numbered section: SECTION __. Subchapter C, Chapter 155, Occupations Code, is amended by adding Section 155.1025 to read as follows: Sec. 155.1025. EXPEDITED PROCESS FOR CERTAIN APPLICANTS. (a) The board shall adopt rules for expediting any application for a license under this subtitle made by a person who is licensed to practice medicine in another state or country and who submits an affidavit with the application stating that: (1) the applicant intends to practice in a rural community, as determined by the Center for Rural Health Initiatives; or (2) the applicant intends to: (A) accept employment with an entity located in a medically underserved area or health professional shortage area, designated by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and affiliated with or participating in a public university-sponsored graduate medical education program; (B) serve on the faculty of the public university-sponsored graduate medical education program; and (C) engage in the practice of medicine and teaching in a specialty field of medicine that is necessary to obtain or maintain the accreditation of the public university-sponsored graduate medical education program by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. (b) The board shall notify the Texas Department of Health on receipt of an application for expedited processing under Subsection (a)(2). (2) Insert the following appropriately numbered section of the bill: SECTION __. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 51.947 to read as follows: Sec. 51.947. IMMIGRATION VISA WAIVERS FOR FACULTY PHYSICIANS. On receipt of an application from a foreign applicant for the expedited processing of a license under Section 155.1025(a)(2), Occupations Code, the Texas Department of Health shall request the United States Department of State to recommend the waiver of 8 U.S.C. Section 1182(e) under exceptions provided by 8 U.S.C. Section 1184(l) for not more than 20 qualified alien physicians each year who agree, beginning not later than the 90th day after the date of approval of the waiver and continuing for at least three years, to: (1) accept employment with an entity: (A) located in a medically underserved area or health professional shortage area, as designated by the United States Department of Health and Human Services; and (B) affiliated with or participating in a public university-sponsored graduate medical education program; (2) serve on the faculty of the public university-sponsored graduate medical education program; (3) engage in the practice of medicine and teaching in a specialty field of medicine that is necessary to obtain or maintain the accreditation of the public university-sponsored graduate medical education program by the Accredition Council for Graduate Medical Education; and (4) join a medical practice located in a medically underserved area or health professional shortage area, as designated by the United States Department of Health and Human services. (3) Renumber the sections of the bill accordingly.