| H.B. No. 400 | ||
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| 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.Statutes affected: Introduced: () House Committee Report: () Engrossed: () Senate Committee Report: () Enrolled: () | ||