Bill Text: CA SB1416 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medical residency training program grants: grants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-16 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. [SB1416 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1416-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1416	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 29, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 30, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 16, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Rubio and Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Article 4 (commencing with Section 128310) to
Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health care.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1416, as amended, Rubio. Medical residency training program
grants: grants.
    Existing law, the Song-Brown Family Physician Training Act,
declares the intent of the Legislature to increase the number of
students and residents receiving quality education and training in
the specialty of family practice and as primary care physician's
assistants and primary care nurse practitioners. Existing law
establishes, for this purpose, a state medical contract program with
accredited medical schools, programs that train primary care
physician's assistants, programs that train primary care nurse
practitioners, registered nurses, hospitals, and other health care
delivery systems.
   Existing law establishes the California Healthcare Workforce
Policy Commission and requires the commission to, among other things,
identify specific areas of the state where unmet priority needs for
primary care family physicians and registered nurses exist, establish
standards for family practice training programs, family practice
residency programs, primary care physician assistants programs, and
programs that train primary care nurse practitioners, and review and
make recommendations to the Director of the Office of Statewide
Health Planning and Development concerning the funding of those
programs that are submitted to the Health Professions Development
Program for participation in the state medical contract program.
   The bill would create the Graduate Medical Education Trust Fund in
the State Treasury  to consist of private moneys donated to the
commission for deposit into the fund and any interest that accrues on
those moneys,  and would require that moneys in the fund be
used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund grants to
graduate medical residency training programs, as specified. The bill
would require the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development, in consultation with the California Healthcare Workforce
Policy Commission, to develop criteria  by December 31, 2013
 ,  upon receipt of private donations of sufficient
moneys to develop the criteria,  for distribution of available
funds.  The bill would state that no General Fund moneys shall be
used to implement the provisions of the bill. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Article 4 (commencing with Section 128310) is added to
Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, to
read:

      Article 4.  Medical Residency Training Program Grants


   128310.  (a) The Graduate Medical Education Trust Fund is hereby
created in the State Treasury.

   (b) Moneys in the fund shall, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, be used solely for the purpose of funding grants to
graduate medical education residency programs in California.
   (c) Notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of the Government Code, all
interest earned on the moneys that have been deposited into the fund
shall be retained in the fund and used for purposes consistent with
the fund.
   (d) The fund shall consist of all of the following:
   (1) All private moneys donated by private individuals or entities
to the commission for deposit into the fund.
    (2) Any amounts appropriated to the fund by the
Legislature. 
    (3) 
    (2)  Any interest that accrues on amounts in the fund.
   (e) No General Fund moneys shall be used to implement this
article.  
   (e) 
    (f)     (1)  The Office of Statewide
Health Planning and Development, in consultation with the California
Healthcare Workforce Policy Committee, shall develop criteria
 on or before December 31, 2013,  for distribution
of available moneys in the fund. 
   (2) The office shall develop criteria only upon receipt of
donations sufficient to cover the costs of developing the criteria.
 
   (f) 
    (g)  In developing the criteria, the office shall give
priority to programs that meet the following specifications:
   (1) Are located in medically underserved areas, as defined in
subdivision (a) of Section 128552.
   (2) Have a proven record of placing graduates in those medically
underserved areas.
   (3) Place an emphasis on training primary care providers.
   (4) Place an emphasis on training physician specialties that are
most needed in the community in which the program is located.

   (g) 
    (h)  Moneys appropriated from the fund may also be used
to fund existing graduate medical education residency slots as well
as new graduate medical education residency slots. 
   (h) 
    (i)  Whenever applicable, the office shall utilize
moneys appropriated from the fund to provide a match for available
federal funds for graduate medical education.