Bill Text: TX HB2908 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to providing graduate medical education positions for Texas medical school graduates.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2908 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2908-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to providing graduate medical education positions for Texas medical school graduates.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2908 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2908-Comm_Sub.html
By: Branch, S. Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 2908 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2011; | ||
April 29, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher | ||
Education; May 12, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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relating to providing graduate medical education positions for | ||
Texas medical school graduates. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.051, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-4) to read as follows: | ||
(a-4) The board shall include in the five-year master plan | ||
developed under Subsection (a-1) an assessment of the adequacy of | ||
opportunities for graduates of medical schools in this state to | ||
enter graduate medical education in this state. The assessment | ||
must: | ||
(1) compare the number of first-year graduate medical | ||
education positions available annually with the number of medical | ||
school graduates; | ||
(2) include a statistical analysis of recent trends in | ||
and projections of the number of medical school graduates and | ||
first-year graduate medical education positions in this state; | ||
(3) develop methods and strategies for achieving a | ||
ratio for the number of first-year graduate medical education | ||
positions to the number of medical school graduates in this state of | ||
at least 1.1 to 1; | ||
(4) evaluate current and projected physician | ||
workforce needs of this state, by total number and by specialty, in | ||
the development of additional first-year graduate medical | ||
education positions; and | ||
(5) examine whether this state should ensure that a | ||
first-year graduate medical education position is created in this | ||
state for each new medical student position established by a | ||
medical and dental unit. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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