By: Deuell, Schwertner	S.B. No. 256
	(In the Senate - Filed January 25, 2013; January 29, 2013,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
	March 18, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 18, 2013,
	sent to printer.)
	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 256	By:  Zaffirini

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to tracking career information for graduates of Texas
	medical schools and persons completing medical residency programs
	in Texas.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 61.0906 to read as follows:
	Sec. 61.0906.  TRACKING SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL TRAINING AND
	PRACTICE CHOICES.  (a)  The board by rule shall establish a system
	under which the board acquires and maintains data regarding the
	initial residency program choices made by graduates of medical
	schools in this state and the initial practice choices made by
	persons completing medical residency programs in this state.  The
	tracking system must:
	(1)  use any data reasonably available to the board,
	including data maintained by or accessible to medical schools or
	residency programs in this state; and
	(2)  with respect to a person who completes a medical
	residency program in this state, collect relevant information for
	the two-year period following completion of that program.
	(b)  For purposes of Subsection (a)(2), relevant information
	includes:
	(1)  whether and for how long physicians who complete
	medical residency programs in this state work in primary care in
	this state and which medical specialties they report as their
	primary medical practice; and
	(2)  the locations of the practices established by
	those persons.
	SECTION 2.  (a)  As soon as practicable after the effective
	date of this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
	shall adopt rules for the implementation and administration of the
	tracking system established under Section 61.0906, Education Code,
	as added by this Act.  The board may adopt the initial rules in the
	manner provided by law for emergency rules.
	(b)  Not later than January 1, 2014, the Texas Higher
	Education Coordinating Board shall establish the tracking system
	required by Section 61.0906, Education Code, as added by this Act.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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