Bill Text: TX SB1378 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to meeting the graduate medical education needs of medical degree programs offered or proposed by public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-20 - Effective immediately [SB1378 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1378-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1378 | ||
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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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1378 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 9, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1378 passed the House on | ||
| May 3, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 1, two present | ||
| not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
