H.B. No. 400

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	AN ACT
	relating to innovation grant programs to support residency training
	programs in psychiatric specialty fields and recruitment,
	training, and retention programs in behavioral health fields.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 58A, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subchapter D to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER D. PSYCHIATRIC SPECIALTY INNOVATION GRANT PROGRAM
	Sec. 58A.071.  PSYCHIATRIC SPECIALTY INNOVATION GRANT
	PROGRAM. Subject to available funds, the board shall establish an
	innovation grant program under which the board awards incentive
	payments to medical schools that administer innovative residency
	training programs designed to increase the number of physicians in
	this state who specialize in pediatric or adult psychiatric care.
	Sec. 58A.072.  FEDERAL FUNDS AND GIFTS, GRANTS, AND
	DONATIONS.  In addition to other money appropriated by the
	legislature, for the purpose of promoting pediatric or adult
	psychiatric care under the program established under this
	subchapter the board may:
	(1)  seek and apply for any available federal funds;
	and
	(2)  solicit and accept gifts, grants, and donations
	from any other source, public or private, as necessary to ensure
	effective implementation of the program.
	Sec. 58A.073.  RULES.  In consultation with each medical
	school in this state, the board shall adopt rules for the
	administration of the program established under this
	subchapter.  The rules must include:
	(1)  administrative provisions relating to the
	awarding of grants under this subchapter, such as:
	(A)  eligibility criteria for medical schools,
	including a requirement that the medical school demonstrate
	regional and state workforce need;
	(B)  grant application procedures;
	(C)  guidelines relating to grant amounts;
	(D)  procedures for evaluating grant
	applications; and
	(E)  procedures for monitoring the use of grants;
	and
	(2)  methods for tracking the effectiveness of grants
	that:
	(A)  using data reasonably available to the board,
	consider relevant information regarding the career paths of medical
	school graduates during the four-year period following their
	graduation; and
	(B)  evaluate whether and for how long those
	graduates practice in a psychiatric specialty field in this state.
	Sec. 58A.074.  AWARD OF GRANTS. (a)  In awarding grants
	under the program, the board shall award:
	(1)  60 percent of the amount available in each program
	year to medical schools with innovative residency programs that
	train physicians to specialize in pediatric psychiatric care; and
	(2)  40 percent of the amount available in each program
	year to medical schools with innovative residency programs that
	train physicians to specialize in adult psychiatric care.
	(b)  Within each category of grants prescribed by Subsection
	(a), the board shall give priority to grants to medical schools with
	innovative residency programs based in rural or underserved areas.
	Sec. 58A.075.  GRANT AMOUNT.  The amount of a grant awarded
	under this subchapter may not exceed $1 million.
	Sec. 58A.076.  REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.  A medical school
	that receives a grant awarded under this subchapter shall submit to
	the board an annual report on the amounts and purposes for which
	grant funds were spent during the year covered by the report.
	Sec. 58A.077.  ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.  A reasonable amount,
	not to exceed five percent, of any general revenue appropriated for
	purposes of this subchapter may be used by the board to pay the
	costs of administering this subchapter.
	SECTION 2.  Chapter 61, Education Code, is amended by adding
	Subchapter RR to read as follows: