82R9405 KEL-F
	By: Gonzales of Hidalgo	H.B. No. 3189

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the establishment of an academic health center by a
	university system.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 51, Education Code, is amended by adding
	Subchapter I to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER I. ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTERS
	Sec. 51.451.  DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
	(1)  "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher
	Education Coordinating Board.
	(2)  "General academic teaching institution,"
	"governing board," and "university system" have the meanings
	assigned by Section 61.003.
	Sec. 51.452.  ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER. An academic health
	center is a program that integrates biomedical and clinical
	research, patient care, and predoctoral and postdoctoral teaching
	provided by multiple participating institutions, schools, and
	programs.
	Sec. 51.453.  ESTABLISHMENT. The governing board of a
	university system may establish an academic health center as a
	program of institutions of higher education under the board's
	control and direction if the system meets the criteria provided by
	this subchapter, as determined by the coordinating board. The
	center must include as participants:
	(1)  one or more allopathic or osteopathic medical
	schools;
	(2)  two or more health professional schools or
	programs, such as nursing, public health, or pharmacy schools or
	programs;
	(3)  one or more undergraduate degree programs of a
	general academic teaching institution; and
	(4)  one or more graduate degree programs of a general
	academic teaching institution.
	Sec. 51.454.  DEMONSTRATION OF NEED AND SUPPORT. (a) The
	coordinating board shall approve the establishment of an academic
	health center under Section 51.453 if the coordinating board finds
	that the university system seeking to establish the center has
	demonstrated:
	(1)  a need for the center based on applicable
	statewide and regional factors, including:
	(A)  demographic factors such as:
	(i)  age, income, and health condition; and
	(ii)  rate of persons without health care
	coverage; and
	(B)  present or predicted physician-to-population
	ratios or physician shortages in identified specialties;
	(2)  the system's ability to provide a teaching
	hospital and other facilities adequate to support the center's
	research, education, and clinical activities, considering the
	proximity and availability of existing complementary facilities
	and programs;
	(3)  the center's capacity to expend in the aggregate a
	minimum of $50 million annually in federally sponsored or privately
	sponsored research, as evidenced by the research contracts of
	participating institutions, provided that the center will
	participate in those contracts;
	(4)  community support from a combination of state and
	local governments, charities, chambers of commerce, hospitals, and
	medical societies, as evidenced by commitments of financial and
	other resources with an aggregate value of at least $35 million; and
	(5)  a well-defined business plan that includes
	identified financial resources estimated to be sufficient for the
	ongoing support of the center, including support for medical
	residencies.
	(b)  Health condition information considered under
	Subsection (a)(1)(A)(i) may include health condition information
	relating to rates of disabilities, infant mortality, obesity, or
	diabetes or other chronic conditions.
	Sec. 51.455.  EFFECT ON FORMULA FUNDING. For purposes of the
	appropriation formulas recommended by the coordinating board under
	Section 61.059, a student of an academic health center established
	under this subchapter is considered to be a student of a
	health-related institution to the extent that formula funding of
	health-related institutions applies to the discipline in which the
	student is enrolled.
	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, 2011.