Bill Text: TX HB80 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a study and report regarding shortages in certain health professions.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-02 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB80 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB80-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 80 | ||
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| relating to a study and report regarding shortages in certain | ||
| health professions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.06691 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.06691. STUDY ON SHORTAGES IN CERTAIN HEALTH | ||
| PROFESSIONS. (a) Subject to the availability of funds, the board | ||
| shall conduct a study in collaboration with the Texas Health | ||
| Professions Resource Center, the Texas Center for Nursing Workforce | ||
| Studies, and the Texas Demographic Center to identify statewide and | ||
| regional shortages in health professions, with an emphasis on | ||
| shortages in doctoral-level training in those health professions. | ||
| Using existing information to the extent possible, the board shall | ||
| develop an inventory of existing health science education programs | ||
| at institutions of higher education and private or independent | ||
| institutions of higher education and note the enrollment capacity | ||
| for each of those programs. The study must include an analysis of | ||
| shortages in the following health professions for which | ||
| doctoral-level training is offered: | ||
| (1) medicine, including a doctor of medicine degree | ||
| (M.D.) and a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree (D.O.); | ||
| (2) dentistry, including a doctor of dental surgery | ||
| degree (D.D.S.) and a doctor of dental medicine degree (D.M.D.); | ||
| (3) nursing, including a doctor of philosophy degree | ||
| and a doctor of nursing practice degree; | ||
| (4) physical therapy, including a doctor of philosophy | ||
| degree and a doctor of physical therapy degree; | ||
| (5) occupational therapy, including a doctor of | ||
| philosophy degree and a doctor of occupational therapy degree; | ||
| (6) audiology, including a doctor of philosophy degree | ||
| and a doctor of audiology degree; | ||
| (7) psychology, including a doctor of philosophy | ||
| degree and a doctor of psychology degree; | ||
| (8) pharmacy, including a doctor of philosophy degree | ||
| and a doctor of pharmacy degree; | ||
| (9) public health, including a doctor of philosophy | ||
| degree and a doctor of public health degree; and | ||
| (10) speech-language pathology, including a doctor of | ||
| philosophy degree and a doctor of speech-language pathology degree. | ||
| (b) The board shall make recommendations regarding the | ||
| establishment of new programs and expansion of existing programs to | ||
| meet the increased need for health professionals in the state, | ||
| including in particular the increased need for health professionals | ||
| with doctoral-level training who serve rural communities in this | ||
| state. | ||
| (c) Not later than December 1, 2023, the board shall submit | ||
| to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house | ||
| of representatives, and each legislative standing committee with | ||
| primary jurisdiction over higher education the results of its study | ||
| under this section and recommendations for legislative or other | ||
| action. | ||
| (d) The board may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and | ||
| donations from any public or private source to conduct the study, | ||
| prepare the report, and develop recommendations as required under | ||
| this section. | ||
| (e) This section expires January 1, 2024. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 80 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 8, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 80 was passed by the Senate on May 16, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 19, Nays 12. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
