Bill Text: TX SB1648 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a system health center by a university system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-02 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1648 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1648-Comm_Sub.html
By: Watson, Hinojosa | S.B. No. 1648 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2011; March 23, 2011, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
April 18, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 18, 2011, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1648 | By: Watson |
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relating to the establishment of a system health center by a | ||
university system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 51, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subchapter I to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER I. SYSTEM HEALTH CENTERS | ||
Sec. 51.451. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
(1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board. | ||
(2) "General academic teaching institution," | ||
"governing board," "institution of higher education," and | ||
"university system" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
Sec. 51.452. SYSTEM HEALTH CENTER. A system health center | ||
integrates biomedical and clinical research, patient care | ||
services, and predoctoral and postdoctoral teaching provided by | ||
participating institutions, schools, and programs. | ||
Sec. 51.453. ESTABLISHMENT. (a) The governing board of a | ||
university system may establish a system health center consisting | ||
of institutions of higher education under the board's control and | ||
direction if the system meets the criteria provided by this | ||
subchapter, as determined by the coordinating board. | ||
(b) The educational programs of a system health center must | ||
be offered primarily by a single institution of higher education | ||
and, together with patient care services, must be provided | ||
primarily within the geographic region designated by the governing | ||
board. | ||
(c) Each of the following must offer substantial | ||
educational programs through the system health center: | ||
(1) one or more allopathic or osteopathic medical | ||
schools, each of which must administer residency programs in not | ||
fewer than three medical specialties within the center; | ||
(2) two or more health professional schools or | ||
programs, such as nursing, public health, or pharmacy schools or | ||
programs; | ||
(3) one or more undergraduate degree programs of a | ||
general academic teaching institution; and | ||
(4) one or more graduate degree programs of a general | ||
academic teaching institution. | ||
Sec. 51.454. DEMONSTRATION OF NEED AND SUPPORT. (a) The | ||
coordinating board shall approve the establishment of a system | ||
health center under Section 51.453 if the coordinating board finds | ||
that the university system seeking to establish the center has | ||
demonstrated: | ||
(1) a need for the center based on applicable | ||
statewide and regional factors, including: | ||
(A) demographic factors such as: | ||
(i) age, income, and health condition; and | ||
(ii) rate of persons without health care | ||
coverage; and | ||
(B) present or predicted physician-to-population | ||
ratios or physician shortages in identified specialties; | ||
(2) the center's access to a teaching hospital and | ||
other facilities adequate to support the center's research, | ||
education, and clinical activities, considering the proximity and | ||
availability of existing complementary facilities and programs; | ||
(3) the center's capacity to expend in the aggregate a | ||
minimum of $50 million annually in federally sponsored or privately | ||
sponsored research, as evidenced by the research contracts of | ||
participating institutions, provided that programs of the center | ||
will participate in those contracts; | ||
(4) community support for the center from a | ||
combination of state and local governments, charities, chambers of | ||
commerce, hospitals, and medical societies, as evidenced by | ||
commitments of financial and other resources with an aggregate | ||
value of at least $35 million; and | ||
(5) a well-defined business plan that includes | ||
identified financial resources estimated to be sufficient for the | ||
ongoing support of the center, including support for medical | ||
residencies. | ||
(b) Health condition information considered under | ||
Subsection (a)(1)(A)(i) may include health condition information | ||
relating to rates of disabilities, infant mortality, obesity, or | ||
diabetes or other chronic conditions. | ||
Sec. 51.455. EFFECT ON FORMULA FUNDING. For purposes of the | ||
appropriation formulas recommended by the coordinating board under | ||
Section 61.059, a student of an educational program offered by a | ||
system health center is considered to be a student of a | ||
health-related institution to the extent that formula funding of | ||
health-related institutions applies to the discipline in which the | ||
student is enrolled. | ||
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, 2011. | ||
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