ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 3058	By:	Steele, Dorman, Hickman, Walker, Jackson, Cannaday, Sherrer, Cox, Condit and Hoskin of the House

			and

		Bingman, Crain, Ivester, McAffrey, Stanislawski and Brinkley of the Senate

An Act relating to public health and safety; creating the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program Act; defining terms; creating the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program; establishing purpose of the Program; requiring Oklahoma Health Care Authority to designate certain hospitals; authorizing Authority to contract with certain colleges to provide certain funding; requiring Authority to provide technical assistance and funding to certain colleges, to establish certain reporting mechanisms, and to present certain report to certain individuals; creating the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program Revolving Fund; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

SUBJECT:  Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program Act

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 697.22 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program Act".

SECTION 2.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 697.23 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

As used in the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program Act:

1.  "Eligible hospital" means a hospital which qualifies for new residency training programs under the rules established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or other federal entities authorized to establish residency training programs;

2.  "Residency training program" means post-medical-school graduate training programs approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and accredited by the appropriate governing bodies of either the osteopathic or allopathic professions in the training disciplines of family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology and emergency medicine; and

3.  “Medically underserved areas” means areas having too few primary care providers, high infant mortality, high poverty, a high elderly population, and/or a population census of at least fifty percent (50%) Medicare, Medicaid and uninsured mix.

SECTION 3.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 697.24 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A.  There is hereby created the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program to be administered by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.

B.  The purpose of the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program shall be to establish new residency training programs affiliated with the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in eligible hospitals, focused on meeting the healthcare needs of medically underserved areas, subject to the availability of funding.

SECTION 4.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 697.25 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A.  The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall, in consultation with the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, designate eligible hospitals for the creation of new residency training programs to serve medically underserved areas.

B.  The Oklahoma Health Care Authority is authorized to contract with the Oklahoma State University of Osteopathic Medicine and the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine to provide funding for the establishment of new residency training programs created under the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program Act.

C.  The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall, with the assistance of the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, provide technical assistance and funding for the colleges’ costs incurred in supporting the programs to ensure that residency training programs established pursuant to the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program Act become funded by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.

D.  The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall establish reporting mechanisms for eligible hospitals for the monitoring of progress of the new residency training programs.

E.  The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall present a report on the operation of the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program to the Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives within one (1) month of the beginning of each regular session of the Legislature which shall include, but shall not be limited to, information on the progress made in implementing the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program Act.

SECTION 5.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 697.26 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to be designated the "Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program Revolving Fund".  The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monies received by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority from state funds, federal funds, grants, contracts, and private gifts or bequests dedicated to or for the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program.  All monies accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority for the purpose of administering the Oklahoma Hospital Residency Training Program.  Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of State Finance for approval and payment.

SECTION 6.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2012.

SECTION 7.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby 
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

Passed the House of Representatives the 23rd day of May, 2012.

	
Presiding Officer of the House of
	Representatives

Passed the Senate the 25th day of May, 2012.

	
Presiding Officer of the Senate