Bill Text: CA SB21 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 21 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: University of California: UC Riverside Medical School.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 203, Statutes of 2013. [SB21 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB21-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 21	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 23, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 18, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Roth
    (   Principal coauthor:   Assembly Member
  Medina   ) 
   (Coauthors: Senators Correa and Hueso)

                        DECEMBER 3, 2012

   An act relating to the University of California, making an
appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 21, as amended, Roth. University of California: UC Riverside
Medical School: funding.
   Existing provisions of the California Constitution establish the
University of California as a public trust under the administration
of the Regents of the University of California. The University of
California system includes 10 campuses, which are located in
Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego,
San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
   This bill would annually appropriate $15,000,000 from the General
Fund to the Regents of the University of California for allocation to
the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside.
 This bill would provide that these funds shall be available
for planning and startup costs associated with academic programs to
be offered by the School of Medicine at the University of California,
Riverside, as specified.   The bill would require the
Regents of the University of California to use these moneys for the
sole purpose of funding the School of Medicine at the University of
California, Riverside, and would prohibit the regents from
redirecting or otherwise expending these moneys for any other
purpose. The bill also would prohibit the use of this funding to
supplant other funding of the Regents of the University of California
for the School of Medicine at the University of California,
Riverside.  
   The bill would require the School of Medicine at the University of
California, Riverside, to develop a program consistent with its
mission, in conjunction with the health facilities of its medical
residency programs, to identify eligible medical residents and to
assist those medical residents to apply for physician retention
programs, including, but not limited to, the Steven M. Thompson
Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program. 
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION   1   .    The Legislature
finds and declares all of the following:  
   (a) California's supply of primary care physicians is below what
is considered sufficient to meet patient needs. In the rapidly
growing and ethnically diverse area of inland southern California,
the shortage is particularly severe, with just 40 primary care
physicians per 100,000 patients, which is far fewer than the
recommended range of 60 to 80 primary care physicians per 100,000
patients. Furthermore, Latinos, African Americans, and Native
Americans are vastly underrepresented in the physician workforce.
 
   (b) California lags substantially in the number of medical school
seats per capita, having just 17.3 seats per 100,000 persons,
compared to the United States average of 31.4 seats per 100,000
persons, according to statistics published by the Association of
American Medical Colleges.  
   (c) According to the California HealthCare Foundation, 72 percent
of California's 58 counties have an undersupply of primary care
physicians, with primary care physicians making up just 34 percent of
California's physician workforce.  
   (d) The University of California, Riverside, (UCR) has had a
longstanding two-year medical education program and its independent
four-year school of medicine has received preliminary accreditation
from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the nationally
recognized accrediting body for medical education programs leading to
M.D. degrees in the United States and Canada. When this new
four-year medical school opens in August 2013, it will become the
first new public medical school in California in more than 40 years.
 
   (e) This community-based medical school with a public mission to
expand and diversify the region's physician workforce and to improve
the health of people living in inland southern California has made a
commitment to underserved patient populations.  
   (f) There are two principal determinants of where a physician
practices: (1) where he or she grew up, and (2) where he or she
completes residency training following medical school graduation.
 
   (g) The UCR medical school has strategies to capitalize on both of
these factors. Among these strategies are all of the following: (1)
developing student pipeline programs that inspire more young people
in the region to pursue careers in medicine and other allied health
professions and to recruit them to the UCR medical school; (2)
utilizing a holistic review of medical school applicants that takes
into account diverse life experiences in addition to academic
performance; (3) teaching a curriculum that emphasizes key
competencies for primary care medicine, including wellness and
prevention, evidence-based medicine, and chronic disease management;
(4) creating new residency training programs in primary care and
those short-supply specialties that are most needed in inland
southern California; and (5) continuing UCR's commitment to the
recruitment, retention, and advancement of talented students,
faculty, and staff from historically excluded populations who are
currently underrepresented in medical education and the practice of
medicine.  
   (h) As a further incentive for medical students to choose primary
care specialties, the UCR medical school has developed an innovative
"loan-to-scholarship" program, is actively raising nonstate funds to
expand that program, and is educating students and graduates about
existing public and private physician recruitment and retention
programs, including, but not limited to, the Steven M. Thompson
Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program established pursuant to
Article 6 (commencing with Section 128560) of Chapter 5 of Part 3 of
Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code.  
   (i) The appropriation of state funding to the UCR medical school
will add more physicians to underserved areas in inland southern
California and help California meet the objectives of the federal
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) in
the short term and the long term by expanding the physician
workforce. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   (a) The sum of
fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) is hereby appropriated annually
from the General Fund to the Regents of the University of California
for allocation to the School of Medicine at the University of
California, Riverside. Except as provided in subdivision (b), the
Regents of the University of California shall use the moneys
appropriated by this act for the sole purpose of funding the School
of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, and shall not
redirect or otherwise expend these moneys for any other purpose. The
funding authorized by this section shall not be used to supplant
other funding of the Regents of the University of California for the
School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside. 
   (b) Funds provided pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be available
for planning and startup costs associated with academic programs to
be offered by the School of Medicine at the University of California,
Riverside, including all of the following:
   (1) Academic planning activities, support of academic program
offerings, and faculty recruitment.
   (2) The acquisition of instructional materials and equipment.
   (3) Ongoing operating support for faculty, staff, and other annual
operating expenses for the School of Medicine at the University of
California, Riverside. 
   (c) The School of Medicine at the University of California,
Riverside, shall develop a program, consistent with its mission, in
conjunction with the health facilities of its medical residency
programs, to identify eligible medical residents and to assist those
medical residents to apply for physician retention programs,
including, but not limited to, the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps
Loan Repayment Program, established pursuant to Article 6
(commencing with Section 128560) of Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division
107 of the Health and Safety Code. 
   SEC. 2.   SEC. 3.   This act is an
urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of
the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts
constituting the necessity are:
   In order to provide crucial funding to launch the vital health
care mission of the School of Medicine at the University of
California, Riverside, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.