Bill Text: TX HB2594 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to requiring training in the importance of mental and physical health as a requisite for certain medical degrees.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-06 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB2594 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2594-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Ortega, Lalani, Raney, Howard | H.B. No. 2594 | |
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| relating to requiring training in the importance of mental and | ||
| physical health as a requisite for certain medical degrees. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.312 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.312. MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH TRAINING REQUIRED. | ||
| (a) In this section, "medical school" means: | ||
| (1) a medical school as defined by Section 61.501; and | ||
| (2) any other institution of higher education, as | ||
| defined by Section 61.003, or school, department, or college of | ||
| such an institution, that awards medical degrees. | ||
| (b) Each medical school shall include training regarding | ||
| the importance of student, resident, and physician mental and | ||
| physical health in the curriculum required for a medical degree. | ||
| (c) This section does not apply to the requirements for the | ||
| degree program of a student who entered the degree program at a | ||
| medical school before the 2024 fall semester. This subsection | ||
| expires January 1, 2030. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
