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
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By: Turner of Tarrant | H.B. No. 4039 |
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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 [ |
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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. |