Bill Text: TX SB256 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to tracking career information for graduates of Texas medical schools and persons completing medical residency programs in Texas.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-04 - Referred to Higher Education [SB256 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB256-Engrossed.html
| By: Deuell, Schwertner | S.B. No. 256 | |
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| relating to tracking career information for graduates of Texas | ||
| medical schools and persons completing medical residency programs | ||
| in Texas. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.0906 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.0906. TRACKING SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL TRAINING AND | ||
| PRACTICE CHOICES. (a) The board by rule shall establish a system | ||
| under which the board acquires and maintains data regarding the | ||
| initial residency program choices made by graduates of medical | ||
| schools in this state and the initial practice choices made by | ||
| persons completing medical residency programs in this state. The | ||
| tracking system must: | ||
| (1) use any data reasonably available to the board, | ||
| including data maintained by or accessible to medical schools or | ||
| residency programs in this state; and | ||
| (2) with respect to a person who completes a medical | ||
| residency program in this state, collect relevant information for | ||
| the two-year period following completion of that program. | ||
| (b) For purposes of Subsection (a)(2), relevant information | ||
| includes: | ||
| (1) whether and for how long physicians who complete | ||
| medical residency programs in this state work in primary care in | ||
| this state and which medical specialties they report as their | ||
| primary medical practice; and | ||
| (2) the locations of the practices established by | ||
| those persons. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective | ||
| date of this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
| shall adopt rules for the implementation and administration of the | ||
| tracking system established under Section 61.0906, Education Code, | ||
| as added by this Act. The board may adopt the initial rules in the | ||
| manner provided by law for emergency rules. | ||
| (b) Not later than January 1, 2014, the Texas Higher | ||
| Education Coordinating Board shall establish the tracking system | ||
| required by Section 61.0906, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
