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:
Article 4 (commencing with Section 128310) is
2added to Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and
3Safety Code, to read:
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(a) The Graduate Medical Education Fund is hereby
8established in the State Treasury.
9(b) Moneys in the fund shall, upon appropriation by the
10Legislature, be used solely for the purpose of administering and
11funding grants to graduate medical education residency programs
12located in California hospitals or teaching health centers.
13(c) (1) Notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of the Government
14Code, all interest earned on the moneys that have been deposited
15into the fund shall be retained in the fund and used for purposes
16consistent with the fund.
17(2) One-time, ongoing, or administrative costs incurred
or
18generated by the implementation of this article, including those
19that might be incurred by the Office of Statewide Health Planning
20and Development (OSHPD), shall come directly from the Graduate
21Medical Education Fund.
22(d) The fund shall consist of both of the following:
23(1) All assessments, transfers, and appropriations received
24pursuant to Section 128311.
25(2) Interest that accrues on amounts in the fund.
26(e) OSHPD, in consultation with the California Healthcare
27Workforce Policy Commission, shall develop criteria for
28distribution of available moneys in the fund.
29(f) Moneys appropriated from the fund shall be used to fund
30new graduate medical education residency
positions.
31(g) Whenever applicable, OSHPD shall utilize moneys
32appropriated from the fund to provide a match for available federal
33funds for graduate medical education.
34(h) For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall
35apply:
36(1) “Commission” means the California Healthcare Workforce
37Policy Commission, established pursuant to Section 128215.
P3 1(2) “OSHPD” means the Office of Statewide Health Planning
2and Development.
3(3) “Primary care physician” means an allopathic or osteopathic
4physician who has the responsibility for providing initial and
5primary care to patients, maintaining the continuity of patient care,
6and initiating referral for specialist care. A primary care
physician
7shall be either a physician who has limited his or her practice of
8medicine to general practice or who is a board-certified or
9board-eligible internist, pediatrician, obstetrician-gynecologist, or
10family practitioner.
(a) In the 2014-15 fiscal year, the sum of ____ dollars
12($____) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the
13Graduate Medical Education Fund established in Section 128310.
14(b) Commencing with the 2014-15 fiscal year, the sum of two
15million eight hundred forty thousand dollars ($2,840,000) per year
16for three years is hereby appropriated from the California Health
17Data and Planning Fund into the Graduate Medical Education Fund
18established in Section 128310.
Funding of this article shall not affect the existing
20funding for the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act
21(Article 1 (commencing with Section 128200)) for family medicine
22residency or physician assistant, family nurse practitioner, and
23registered nurse training programs.
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