Bill Text: IA HF2529 | 2021-2022 | 89th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to a state-funded psychiatry residency program at various state institutions, creating a program fund, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 2157, HSB 532.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-16 - Subcommittee: Costello, Bolkcom, and Edler. S.J. 544. [HF2529 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2021-HF2529-Introduced.html
House File 2529 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2529 BY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2157) (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 532) A BILL FOR An Act relating to a state-funded psychiatry residency program 1 at various state institutions, creating a program fund, and 2 making appropriations. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5470HZ (3) 89 pf/rh
H.F. 2529 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 135.180 State-funded psychiatry 1 residency program —— fund —— appropriations. 2 1. The university of Iowa hospitals and clinics shall 3 administer a state-funded psychiatry residency program 4 in cooperation with the state mental health institutes at 5 Independence and Cherokee, the state resource centers at 6 Glenwood and Woodward, the state training school at Eldora, 7 and the Iowa medical and classification center at Oakdale. 8 The university of Iowa hospitals and clinics shall expand the 9 psychiatry residency program to provide additional residency 10 positions by providing financial support for residency 11 positions which are in excess of the federal residency cap 12 established by the federal Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Pub. L. 13 No. 105-33. Participating residents shall complete a portion 14 of their psychiatry training at one of the state mental health 15 institutes, the state resource centers, the state training 16 school, or the Iowa medical and classification center at 17 Oakdale. For accreditation-required clinical experiences not 18 available at the state mental health institutes, the state 19 resource centers, the state training school, or the Iowa 20 medical and classification center at Oakdale, the psychiatry 21 residency program and its residents may utilize clinical 22 rotations at the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics and 23 its affiliates across the state. 24 2. The residency program shall provide for the awarding 25 of twelve residency positions for each class of residents. 26 Preference in the awarding of residency positions shall 27 be given to candidates who are residents of Iowa, attended 28 and earned an undergraduate degree from an Iowa college or 29 university, or attended and earned a medical degree from a 30 medical school in Iowa. 31 3. A psychiatry residency program fund is created in 32 the state treasury consisting of the moneys appropriated or 33 credited to the fund by law. Notwithstanding section 8.33, 34 moneys in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not 35 -1- LSB 5470HZ (3) 89 pf/rh 1/ 3
H.F. 2529 revert to any other fund but shall remain in the psychiatry 1 residency program fund for use in subsequent fiscal years. 2 Moneys in the fund are appropriated to the university of Iowa 3 hospitals and clinics to be used for the purposes of the 4 program. For fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2023, 5 there is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the 6 psychiatry residency program fund the following amounts to be 7 used for the purposes of the program: 8 a. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, one million 9 two hundred thousand dollars. 10 b. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, two million 11 four hundred thousand dollars. 12 c. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, three million 13 six hundred thousand dollars. 14 d. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and each 15 fiscal year thereafter, four million eight hundred thousand 16 dollars. 17 EXPLANATION 18 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 19 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 20 This bill requires the university of Iowa hospitals and 21 clinics (UIHC) to administer a state-funded psychiatry 22 residency program in cooperation with the state mental health 23 institutes at Independence and Cherokee, the state resource 24 centers at Glenwood and Woodward, the state training school 25 at Eldora, and the Iowa medical and classification center 26 at Oakdale. The UIHC shall expand the psychiatry residency 27 program to provide additional residency positions in excess of 28 those approved under the federal residency cap. Participating 29 residents shall complete a portion of their psychiatry training 30 at one of the state institutions specified. However, if 31 accreditation-required clinical experiences are not available 32 at one of the state institutions, the program and residents may 33 utilize clinical rotations at the UIHC or its affiliates across 34 the state. The program shall award 12 residency positions 35 -2- LSB 5470HZ (3) 89 pf/rh 2/ 3
H.F. 2529 for each class of residents and preference in the awarding 1 of residency positions shall be given to candidates who are 2 residents of Iowa, attended and earned an undergraduate degree 3 from an Iowa college or university, or attended and earned a 4 medical degree from a medical school in Iowa. 5 The bill creates a psychiatry residency program fund in 6 the state treasury consisting of the moneys appropriated or 7 credited to the fund by law. Moneys in the fund at the end of 8 each fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain in the fund 9 for use in subsequent fiscal years. Moneys in the fund are 10 appropriated to the UIHC to be used for the purposes of the 11 program. The bill makes appropriations for the fiscal years 12 beginning July 1, 2023, and thereafter. 13 -3- LSB 5470HZ (3) 89 pf/rh 3/ 3
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