BILL NUMBER: SB 1416	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 16, 2012

INTRODUCED BY    Senator   Rubio 
 Senators   Rubio   and Hernandez 

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   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  public postsecondary education. 
 health care. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1416, as amended, Rubio.  Public postsecondary
education: construction of new medical school.   Medical
residency training program grants: grants.  
    Existing law, the Song-Brown Family Physician Training Act,
declares the intent of the Legislature to increase the number of
students and residents receiving quality education and training in
the specialty of family practice and as primary care physician's
assistants and primary care nurse practitioners. Existing law
establishes, for this purpose, a state medical contract program with
accredited medical schools, programs that train primary care
physician's assistants, programs that train primary care nurse
practitioners, registered nurses, hospitals, and other health care
delivery systems.  
   Existing law establishes the California Healthcare Workforce
Policy Commission and requires the commission to, among other things,
identify specific areas of the state where unmet priority needs for
primary care family physicians and registered nurses exist, establish
standards for family practice training programs, family practice
residency programs, primary care physician assistants programs, and
programs that train primary care nurse practitioners, and review and
make recommendations to the Director of the Office of Statewide
Health Planning and Development concerning the funding of those
programs that are submitted to the Health Professions Development
Program for participation in the state medical contract program.
 
   The bill would create the Graduate Medical Education Trust Fund in
the State Treasury and would require that moneys in the fund be used
by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to fund grants to medical residency
training programs for the creation of additional residency
positions, which would be funded at the same rate as residency
positions funded through the Medicare Program.  
   Existing law establishes the system of public postsecondary
education in this state, consisting of 3 segments: the University of
California, the California State University, and the California
Community Colleges. Existing law provides that the University of
California has exclusive jurisdiction in public higher education over
instruction in the profession of law and over graduate instruction
in the professions of medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.
 
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would provide for the establishment and construction
of a new medical school in this state. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  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 Trust Fund is hereby
created in the State Treasury.

   (b) Moneys in the fund shall, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, be used by the office solely for the purposes specified
in this section.
   (c) 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.
   (d) The fund shall consist of all of the following:
   (1) All private moneys donated by private individuals or entities
to the commission for deposit into the fund.
   (2) Any amounts appropriated to the fund by the Legislature.
   (3) Any interest that accrues on amounts in the fund.
   (e) Moneys in the fund shall be used by the office to fund grants
to medical residency training programs for the creation of additional
residency positions. Additional residency positions funded pursuant
to this section shall be funded at the same rate as residency
positions funded through the Medicare Program.
   (f) For purposes of this section, "office" means the Office of
Statewide Health Planning and Development.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation that would provide for the establishment and
construction of a new medical school in this state.