Bill Text: TX HB4039 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to meeting the graduate medical education needs of medical degree programs offered or proposed by public institutions of higher education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-03 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB4039 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB4039-Introduced.html
  86R12486 KEL-D
 
  By: Turner of Tarrant H.B. No. 4039
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to meeting the graduate medical education needs of medical
  degree programs offered or proposed by public institutions of
  higher education.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 61.05122, Education Code, is amended by
  amending Subsections (b) and (d) and adding Subsections (b-1) and
  (d-1) to read as follows:
         (b)  As soon as practicable after an institution of higher
  education completes preliminary planning for a new doctor of
  medicine (M.D.) or doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.) degree
  program, the institution promptly shall provide to the board a
  specific plan regarding the addition of first-year residency
  positions for the graduate medical education program to be offered
  in connection with the [new] degree program.  The plan must propose
  an increase in the number of those first-year residency positions
  that, when combined with the total number of existing first-year
  residency positions in this state, will be sufficient to reasonably
  accommodate the number of anticipated graduates from all doctor of
  medicine (M.D.) or doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.) degree
  programs that are offered in this state, including the degree
  program proposed by the institution, and to provide adequate
  opportunity for those graduates to remain in this state for the
  clinical portion of their education.
         (b-1)  If in its preliminary planning the institution
  establishes a long-term targeted maximum individual enrollment
  class size that differs from its proposed initial maximum
  individual enrollment class size, the institution's plan under
  Subsection (b) must include a proposed increase in the number of
  first-year residency positions over time that will be sufficient to
  accommodate, in accordance with the requirements of that
  subsection, the institution's planned increase or increases in
  maximum individual enrollment class size.
         (d)  An institution's projected increase in first-year
  residency positions is presumed to be sufficient in its plan if,
  considering both the institution's proposed initial maximum
  individual enrollment class size and any projected growth in that
  class size, the increase will achieve the purposes of this section
  with respect to all graduates from degree programs described by
  this section that are offered or will be offered by the institution.
         (d-1)  Any institution that experiences substantial growth
  in an individual enrollment class size after the approval of its
  plan promptly shall provide to the board an updated plan that
  complies with Subsection (b) based on the institution's actual
  maximum individual enrollment class size and, if the institution
  anticipates continued substantial growth, based on the
  institution's targeted maximum individual enrollment class size.
  The board shall adopt rules that clearly define what constitutes a
  substantial growth in class size for an institution subject to this
  section.
         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, 2019.
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