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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: () |