Bill Text: IA HF2052 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the medical residency training state matching grants program rural rotation requirement. (See HF 2197.)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-24 - Withdrawn. H.J. 348. [HF2052 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2019-HF2052-Introduced.html
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Introduced
HOUSE
FILE
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BY
FRY
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
the
medical
residency
training
state
1
matching
grants
program
rural
rotation
requirement.
2
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
135.176,
subsection
2,
paragraph
g,
Code
1
2020,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
g.
A
requirement
that
the
residency
program
offer
persons
to
3
whom
a
primary
care
,
including
psychiatry,
residency
position
4
is
awarded,
the
opportunity
to
participate
in
a
rural
rotation
5
to
expose
the
resident
to
the
rural
areas
of
the
state.
For
6
the
purposes
of
this
paragraph,
“primary
care”
shall
include
7
psychiatry,
obstetrics,
gynecology,
family
medicine,
internal
8
medicine,
and
emergency
medicine.
9
EXPLANATION
10
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
11
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
12
This
bill
relates
to
the
medical
residency
training
state
13
matching
grants
program.
14
Under
current
law,
the
program
requires
that
a
residency
15
program
offer
persons
to
whom
a
primary
care
residency
position
16
is
awarded
the
opportunity
to
participate
in
a
rural
rotation
17
to
expose
the
resident
to
the
rural
areas
of
the
state.
Under
18
current
law,
primary
care
specifically
includes
the
practice
19
area
of
psychiatry.
Under
the
bill,
the
specified
primary
20
care
practice
areas
are
expanded
to
also
include
obstetrics,
21
gynecology,
family
medicine,
internal
medicine,
and
emergency
22
medicine.
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