Bill Text: CA AB2216 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Primary care residency programs: grant program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2216 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2216-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2216	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonta

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 128245) to
Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health workforce development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2216, as amended, Bonta. Primary care residency programs: grant
program.
   Existing federal and state laws contain programs that authorize
loan forgiveness to physicians, dentists, and individuals enrolled in
a postsecondary institution studying medicine or dentistry who agree
to practice in medically or dentally underserved areas. Under
existing law, the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education
(THCGME) program was created by the federal Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act for the purpose of awarding grants to teaching
health centers for the purpose of establishing new accredited or
expanded primary care residency programs.
   This bill would establish the Teaching Health Center Primary Care
Graduate Medical Education Fund for purposes of funding primary care
residency programs, as specified, subject to appropriation by the
Legislature. The bill would establish criteria for the awarding of
grants under these provisions to teaching health centers, as defined.
The bill would require the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development and the Director of Statewide Health Planning and
Development to administer these provisions, as specified. The bill
would require the office to adopt emergency regulations to implement
these provisions.  The bill would provide that its provisions are
subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act for these purposes.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 128245) is added
to Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code,
to read:

      Article 1.5.  Teaching Health Center Primary Care Graduate
Medical Education Act of 2016


   128245.  For purposes of this article, the following terms have
the following meanings:
   (a) "Director" means the Director of Statewide Health Planning and
Development.
   (b) "Fund" means the Teaching Health Center Primary Care Graduate
Medical Education Fund.
   (c) "Office" means the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development.
   (d) "Sustaining grant" means a grant awarded to ensure the
continued operation of an accredited teaching health center, whether
that accreditation was first awarded pursuant to the process created
by this article or the accreditation was awarded prior to the
enactment of this article.
   (e) "Teaching health center" has the same meaning as defined in
Article 1 (commencing with Section 128200).
   128246.  There is in the State Treasury the Teaching Health Center
Primary Care Graduate Medical Education Fund, which fund is hereby
created.
   128247.  (a) Subject to appropriation by the Legislature, the
director shall award planning and development grants from the fund to
teaching health centers for the purpose of establishing new
accredited or expanded primary care residency programs.
   (b) Grants awarded under this section shall be for a term of not
more than three years and the maximum award to a teaching health
center shall not be more than five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000).
   (c) A grant awarded pursuant to this section shall be used to
cover the costs of establishing or expanding a primary care residency
training program described in subdivision (a), including costs
associated with curriculum development, recruitment, training, and
retention of residents and faculty, accreditation by the
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the
American Dental Association (ADA), or the American Osteopathic
Association (AOA), faculty salaries during the development phase, and
technical assistance.
   (d) A teaching health center seeking a grant under this section
shall submit an application to the office in the format prescribed by
the office. The director shall evaluate those applications and award
grants based on criteria consistent with a teaching health center's
readiness and other factors indicating the likelihood of success at
implementing a primary care residency program.
   128248.  (a) Subject to appropriation by the Legislature, the
director shall award sustaining grants from the fund to teaching
health centers operating primary care residency programs accredited
by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME),
the American Dental Association (ADA), or the American Osteopathic
Association (AOA).
   (b) The office shall determine the amount of grants awarded per
resident by taking into account the direct and indirect costs of
graduate medical education. The amount of grants awarded per resident
shall be updated, as appropriate, on an annual basis.
   128249.  The office shall promulgate emergency regulations to
implement this article. 
   128249.5.  Implementation of this article shall be subject to an
appropriation in the annual Budget Act for these purposes.