Bill Text: TX SB256 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to tracking career information for graduates of Texas medical schools and persons completing medical residency programs in Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-04 - Referred to Higher Education [SB256 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB256-Engrossed.html
By: Deuell, Schwertner | S.B. No. 256 |
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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. |