Texas Education Code
§ 61.0594 — COORDINATED FUNDING OF GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
ED § 61.0594Title 3. HIGHER EDUCATION · Part B. STATE COORDINATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION · Ch. 61. TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD · Art. C. POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD
Statute text
View on source(a)The board shall administer a program to support graduate medical education programs in this state consistent with the needs of this state for graduate medical education and the training of resident physicians in accredited residency programs in appropriate fields and specialties, including primary care specialties described by Section 58.008(a).
(b)From money available to the program, the board may make grants or formula distributions to:
(1)support appropriate graduate medical education programs and activities for which adequate funds are not otherwise available; or
(2)foster new or expanded graduate medical education programs or activities that the board determines will address the state's needs for graduate medical education.
(c)To be eligible to receive a grant or distribution under this section, an institution or other entity must incur the costs of faculty supervision and education or the stipend costs of resident physicians in accredited clinical residency programs in this state. In making grants and distributions under this section, the board shall give consideration to the costs incurred by medical schools or other entities to support faculty responsible for the education or supervision of resident physicians in accredited graduate medical education programs, including programs in osteopathic medical education.
(d)The program is funded by appropriations, by gifts, grants, and donations made to support the program, and by any other funds the board obtains, including federal funds, for the program. From program funds, the comptroller of public accounts shall issue warrants to each institution or other entity determined by the board as eligible to receive a grant or distribution from the program in the amount certified by the board. An amount granted to an institution or other entity under the program may be used only to cover expenses of training residents of the particular program or activity for which the award is made in accordance with any conditions imposed by the board and may not otherwise be expended for the general support of the institution or entity.
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 252, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.