PRINTER'S NO. 3976
No. 2817 Session of 1990
INTRODUCED BY DORR, WOZNIAK, MILLER, MORRIS, ROBBINS, TRELLO,
HERMAN, JADLOWIEC, GODSHALL, BUSH, CLYMER, DISTLER,
DIETTERICK, CARLSON, WILSON, TELEK, G. SNYDER, SEMMEL, NOYE,
MERRY, SCHEETZ, PESCI, SCHULER, DEMPSEY, S. H. SMITH, GEIST,
FARGO, BURD, HALUSKA, JOHNSON, D. W. SNYDER, HUGHES,
D. F. CLARK, McHALE, ALLEN AND STRITTMATTER, JULY 1, 1990
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND WELFARE, JULY 1, 1990
AN ACT
1 Requiring osteopathic and medical school appropriation formulas
2 to calculate increased family and general practice
3 specialties.
4 The General Assembly finds that there is a need to increase
5 the numbers of family practice medical physicians and general
6 practice osteopathic physicians in this Commonwealth. It is the
7 intent of this act to encourage the establishment of a family or
8 general practice department in each medical school and
9 osteopathic medical college of this Commonwealth.
10 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
11 hereby enacts as follows:
12 Section 1. Medical school appropriations.
13 (a) Appropriation calculation.--As a condition of receiving
14 an annual appropriation from the General Assembly, each medical
15 school and osteopathic medical college located in the
16 Commonwealth shall comply with the following:
1 (1) On or after June 1, 1991, each medical school and
2 osteopathic medical college shall make a good faith effort to
3 ensure that 25% of each graduating class, subsequent to the
4 class of 1995 enter family or general practice residencies.
5 (2) In 1995, the General Assembly shall reduce the
6 annual appropriation of a medical school or osteopathic
7 medical college for failure to graduate the required
8 percentage of family or general practitioners. The reduction
9 shall be calculated by applying the difference between the
10 actual percentage graduating and entering family or general
11 practice residencies and the required 25% to the annual
12 appropriation and reducing the appropriation by the figure
13 thus obtained.
14 (3) Beginning in 1996, the amount of the annual
15 appropriation reduction shall be two times the figure
16 obtained in applying the formula of paragraph (2).
17 (b) Annual report.--Each medical school and osteopathic
18 medical college shall annually, on or before March 15, report to
19 the Senate and the House of Representatives the results and
20 progress of the family or general practice programs established
21 under this act.
22 Section 2. Effective date.
23 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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