Bill Text: TX HB454 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to performance incentive funding for certain medical schools based on public health impact.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-20 - Referred to Appropriations [HB454 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB454-Introduced.html
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| By: White | H.B. No. 454 | |
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| relating to performance incentive funding for certain medical | ||
| schools based on public health impact. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.0597 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.0597. MEDICAL SCHOOL PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE | ||
| FUNDING. (a) In this section, "medical school" means a medical | ||
| school that is part of The University of Texas System, the Texas | ||
| Tech University System, The Texas A&M University System, or the | ||
| University of North Texas System, or the Baylor College of | ||
| Medicine. | ||
| (b) In consultation with the Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission, the board with the assistance of the advisory committee | ||
| appointed under Subsection (e) biennially shall develop a plan for | ||
| distributing performance incentive funds appropriated for that | ||
| purpose for the next state fiscal biennium to medical schools based | ||
| on each medical school's success in improving the delivery of | ||
| health services and improving health conditions of persons in the | ||
| service region of the medical school. | ||
| (c) A plan developed under this section must: | ||
| (1) define the geographic service region for each | ||
| medical school so that all the territory of this state is included | ||
| in a service region; and | ||
| (2) include recommendations for the performance | ||
| measures and related formulas on which distributions to medical | ||
| schools of any performance incentive funds appropriated by the | ||
| legislature for the next state fiscal biennium would be based. | ||
| (d) In defining the service region for a medical school | ||
| under Subsection (c)(1), the board: | ||
| (1) shall attempt to include areas that: | ||
| (A) are in geographic proximity to the medical | ||
| school; and | ||
| (B) benefit from being served by the medical | ||
| school; and | ||
| (2) may establish a single region for two or more | ||
| medical schools if the board determines that the medical schools | ||
| serve primarily the same areas. | ||
| (e) The board shall establish an advisory committee to | ||
| assist the board in administering this section. Membership on the | ||
| committee must: | ||
| (1) to the greatest extent practicable, reflect a | ||
| balanced representation of: | ||
| (A) the geographic regions of this state; and | ||
| (B) municipalities and counties in this state of | ||
| high, medium, and low population; and | ||
| (2) include: | ||
| (A) members appointed by the governor, | ||
| lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives; | ||
| (B) members who are medical professionals, | ||
| including nurses, nurse practitioners, mental health providers, | ||
| pediatricians, primary care physicians, and public school nurses; | ||
| and | ||
| (C) members who represent the interests of senior | ||
| citizens, veterans, children, the adult criminal justice and | ||
| juvenile justice communities, the health insurance industry, the | ||
| health care free market, public and private hospitals, and | ||
| charitable foundations with a presence in health care. | ||
| (f) The chair of each standing legislative committee with | ||
| primary jurisdiction over criminal justice, juvenile justice, | ||
| public health, appropriations, health and human services, county | ||
| affairs, or higher education, as determined by the presiding | ||
| officer of each house, serves as an ex officio member of the | ||
| advisory committee appointed under Subsection (e). | ||
| (g) The members of the advisory committee appointed under | ||
| Subsection (e) serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed | ||
| by the board for actual expenses incurred in the performance of | ||
| duties as members of the committee. | ||
| (h) Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year, | ||
| the board shall submit the plan developed for the next state fiscal | ||
| biennium under this section to the legislature. The legislature | ||
| may appropriate performance incentive funds for distribution to | ||
| medical schools for the next fiscal biennium based on the plan. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
