Bill Text: TX SB295 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to tracking career information for graduates of Texas medical schools and persons completing medical residency programs in Texas.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB295 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB295-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 295 | ||
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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, 2016, 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 295 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 295 passed the House on | ||
| May 23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 4, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
