SB 1139, as amended, Lara. Health professionals:begin insert medical residency programs:end insert undocumented immigrants: scholarships, loans, and loan repayment.
begin insert(1) Existing law, known as the Medical Practice Act, provides for licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California and imposes various requirements in that regard. Existing law requires an applicant for a license as a physician and surgeon to successfully complete a specified medical curriculum, a clinical instruction program, and a training program. Existing law provides that nothing in the Medical Practice Act shall be construed to prohibit a foreign medical graduate from engaging in the practice of medicine whenever and wherever required as part of a clinical service program, subject to certain conditions.
end insertbegin insertExisting law, known as the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California’s public and independent segments of higher education and their respective institutions of higher education. Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The University of California operates medical schools at its Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco campuses, and a medical school will open at its Riverside campus in the 2016-17 academic year.
end insertbegin insertThis bill would provide that any student, including a person without lawful immigration status, a person who is exempt from nonresident tuition pursuant to a specified statute, or a person who fits into both of those categories, who meets the requirements for admission is eligible to participate in a medical school program and a medical residency training program at any public or private postsecondary educational institution that offers such a program. The bill would also encourage the University of California to develop a process for awarding student financial aid that may include, but not be limited to, grants, scholarships, and stipends, in lieu of employment for students in a medical residency training program whose participation is authorized by this bill.
end insertExisting
end deletebegin insert(2)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertExistingend insert law requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to establish a nonprofit public benefit corporation known as the Health Professions Education Foundation to perform various duties with respect to implementing health professions scholarship and loan programs.
This bill would prohibit specified programs within the foundation, including programs which are funded by the continuously appropriated Health Professions Education Fund, the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians, and the Mental Health Services Fund, from denying an application based on the citizenship status or immigration status of the applicant.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
begin insertSection 2064.3 is added to the end insertbegin insertBusiness and
2Professions Codeend insertbegin insert, to read:end insert
Notwithstanding any other law:
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(a) Any student, including a person without lawful immigration
5status, a person who is exempt from nonresident tuition pursuant
6to Section 68130.5 of the Education Code, or a person who is both
7without lawful immigration status and exempt from nonresident
8tuition pursuant to Section 68130.5 of the Education Code, who
P3 1meets the requirements for admission is eligible to participate in
2a medical school program and a medical residency training
3program at any public or private postsecondary educational
4institution that offers such a program.
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(b) The University of California is encouraged to develop a
6process for awarding student financial aid that may include, but
7not be
limited to, grants, scholarships, and stipends, in lieu of
8employment for students in a medical residency training program
9whose participation is authorized by this section.
Section 128371 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
12to read:
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the
14best interest of the State of California to provide persons who are
15not lawfully present in the United States with the state benefits
16provided bybegin delete theend delete Health Professions Education Foundation
17begin delete Programs,end deletebegin insert programs,end insert and therefore, enacts this section pursuant
18tobegin delete subsection (d) of Section 1621end deletebegin insert
Section 1621(d)end insert of Title 8 of the
19United States Code.
20(b) A program within the Health Professions Education
21Foundation shall not deny an application based on the citizenship
22status or immigration status of the applicant.
23(c) For any program within the Health Professions Education
24Foundation, when mandatory disclosure of a social security number
25is required, an applicant shall provide his or her social security
26number, if one has been issued, or an individual tax identification
27number that has been or will be submitted.
28(d) This section shall apply to all of the following:
29(1) Programs supported through the Health Professions
30Education
Fund pursuant to Section 128355.
31(2) The Registered Nurse Education Fund created pursuant to
32Section 128400.
33(3) The Mental Health Practitioner Education Fund created
34pursuant to Section 128458.
35(4) The Vocational Nurse Education Fund created pursuant to
36Section 128500.
37(5) The Medically Underserved Account for Physicians created
38pursuant to Section 128555.
39(6) The Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship
40Account created pursuant tobegin insert Sectionend insert 128580.
P4 1(7) Loan forgiveness and scholarship programs created pursuant
2to Section 5820 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
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