Bill Text: AZ SB1623 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriations; graduate medical education program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-12 - Senate HHS Committee action: Do Pass, voting: (7-0-0-0) [SB1623 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2025-SB1623-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: appropriations; graduate medical education program

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

SB 1623

 

Introduced by

Senators Werner: Angius, Carroll, Gowan, Shope

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

appropriating monies to the Arizona health care cost containment system administration.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Appropriations; Arizona health care cost containment system administration; graduate medical education; exemption

A. In addition to any other appropriations made in fiscal year 2025-2026, the sum of $10,000,000 from the state general fund and $18,768,700 in expenditure authority are appropriated in fiscal year 2025-2026 to the Arizona health care cost containment system administration for graduate medical education programs to address this state's shortage of physicians.

B. The amounts appropriated in subsection A of this section may be used for the direct and indirect costs of graduate medical education.  The state general fund appropriation may supplement, but not supplant, voluntary payments made from political subdivisions for payments to hospitals that operate a graduate medical education program.  The Arizona health care cost containment system administration may use the amounts appropriated in subsection A of this section for start-up costs related to the development of a new residency program.

C. The appropriations made in subsection A of this section are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.