Amend HB 2420 as follows:                                                    

(1)  On page 1, strike lines 6-8 and substitute the 	following:               
	SECTION 1.  Section 32.0315(b), Human Resources Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(2)  Strike page 1, line 9 through page 2, line 9.                             
	(3)  Strike the last sentence of amended Section 32.0315(b), 
Human Resources Code (page 2, lines 16-21), and substitute the  
following:
	In determining the needs of this state for graduate medical 
education, the department shall give primary emphasis to graduate 
medical education in primary care specialties and shall also 
recognize the growth in residency training slots since 1997 in the 
Lower Rio Grande Valley and other health care shortage areas of this 
state.