Bill Text: TX HB123 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 123 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to performance incentive funding for certain medical schools based on public health impact.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-14 - Referred to Appropriations [HB123 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB123-Introduced.html

	85R414 KSD-D

	By: White	H.B. No. 123



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to performance incentive funding for certain medical
	schools based on public health impact.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 61.0597 to read as follows:
	Sec. 61.0597. MEDICAL SCHOOL PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE
	FUNDING. (a) In this section, "medical school" means a medical
	school that is part of The University of Texas System, the Texas
	Tech University System, The Texas A&M University System, or the
	University of North Texas System, or the Baylor College of
	Medicine.
	(b) In consultation with the Health and Human Services
	Commission, the board with the assistance of the advisory committee
	appointed under Subsection (e) biennially shall develop a plan for
	distributing performance incentive funds appropriated for that
	purpose for the next state fiscal biennium to medical schools based
	on each medical school's success in improving the delivery of
	health services and improving health conditions of persons in the
	service region of the medical school.
	(c) A plan developed under this section must:
	(1) define the geographic service region for each
	medical school so that all the territory of this state is included
	in a service region; and
	(2) include recommendations for the performance
	measures and related formulas on which distributions to medical
	schools of any performance incentive funds appropriated by the
	legislature for the next state fiscal biennium would be based.
	(d) In defining the service region for a medical school
	under Subsection (c)(1), the board:
	(1) shall attempt to include areas that:
	(A) are in geographic proximity to the medical
	school; and
	(B) benefit from being served by the medical
	school; and
	(2) may establish a single region for two or more
	medical schools if the board determines that the medical schools
	serve primarily the same areas.
	(e) The board shall establish an advisory committee to
	assist the board in administering this section. Membership on the
	committee must:
	(1) to the greatest extent practicable, reflect a
	balanced representation of:
	(A) the geographic regions of this state; and
	(B) municipalities and counties in this state of
	high, medium, and low population; and
	(2) include:
	(A) members appointed by the governor,
	lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives;
	(B) members who are medical professionals,
	including nurses, nurse practitioners, mental health providers,
	pediatricians, primary care physicians, and public school nurses;
	and
	(C) members who represent the interests of senior
	citizens, veterans, children, the adult criminal justice and
	juvenile justice communities, the health insurance industry, the
	health care free market, public and private hospitals, and
	charitable foundations with a presence in health care.
	(f) The chair of each standing legislative committee with
	primary jurisdiction over criminal justice, juvenile justice,
	public health, appropriations, health and human services, county
	affairs, or higher education, as determined by the presiding
	officer of each house, serves as an ex officio member of the
	advisory committee appointed under Subsection (e).
	(g) The members of the advisory committee appointed under
	Subsection (e) serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed
	by the board for actual expenses incurred in the performance of
	duties as members of the committee.
	(h) Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year,
	the board shall submit the plan developed for the next state fiscal
	biennium under this section to the legislature. The legislature
	may appropriate performance incentive funds for distribution to
	medical schools for the next fiscal biennium based on the plan.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2017.