BILL NUMBER: AB 2458	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Article 4 (commencing with Section 128310) to
Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to medical care, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2458, as introduced, Bonilla. Medical residency training
program grants.
   Existing law, the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act,
provides for specified training programs for certain health care
workers, including family physicians, registered nurses, nurse
practitioners, and physician's assistants.
   This bill would establish the Graduate Medical Education Fund, to
be used to administer and fund grants to graduate medical education
residency programs located in California hospitals or teaching health
centers, as specified. The bill would appropriate an unspecified
amount of money from the General Fund in the 2014-15 fiscal year for
this purpose and $2,840,000 per year for 3 years, commencing with the
2014-15 fiscal year, from the California Health Data and Planning
Fund for this purpose.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Article 4 (commencing with Section 128310) is added to
Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, to
read:

      Article 4.  Medical Residency Training Program Grants


   128310.  (a) The Graduate Medical Education Fund is hereby
established in the State Treasury.
   (b) Moneys in the fund shall, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, be used solely for the purpose of administering and
funding grants to graduate medical education residency programs
located in California hospitals or teaching health centers.
   (c) (1) Notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of the Government Code,
all interest earned on the moneys that have been deposited into the
fund shall be retained in the fund and used for purposes consistent
with the fund.
   (2) One-time, ongoing, or administrative costs incurred or
generated by the implementation of this article, including those that
might be incurred by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development (OSHPD), shall come directly from the Graduate Medical
Education Fund.
   (d) The fund shall consist of both of the following:
   (1) All assessments, transfers, and appropriations received
pursuant to Section 128311.
   (2) Interest that accrues on amounts in the fund.
   (e) OSHPD, in consultation with the California Healthcare
Workforce Policy Commission, shall develop criteria for distribution
of available moneys in the fund.
   (f) Moneys appropriated from the fund shall be used to fund new
graduate medical education residency positions.
   (g) Whenever applicable, OSHPD shall utilize moneys appropriated
from the fund to provide a match for available federal funds for
graduate medical education.
   (h) For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall
apply:
   (1) "Commission" means the California Healthcare Workforce Policy
Commission, established pursuant to Section 128215.
   (2) "OSHPD" means the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development.
   (3) "Primary care physician" means an allopathic or osteopathic
physician who has the responsibility for providing initial and
primary care to patients, maintaining the continuity of patient care,
and initiating referral for specialist care. A primary care
physician shall be either a physician who has limited his or her
practice of medicine to general practice or who is a board-certified
or board-eligible internist, pediatrician, obstetrician-gynecologist,
or family practitioner.
   128311.  (a) In the 2014-15 fiscal year, the sum of ____ dollars
($____) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Graduate
Medical Education Fund established in Section 128310.
   (b) Commencing with the 2014-15 fiscal year, the sum of two
million eight hundred forty thousand dollars ($2,840,000) per year
for three years is hereby appropriated from the California Health
Data and Planning Fund into the Graduate Medical Education Fund
established in Section 128310.
   128312.  Funding of this article shall not affect the existing
funding for the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act
(Article 1 (commencing with Section 128200)) for family medicine
residency or physician assistant, family nurse practitioner, and
registered nurse training programs.