PRINTER'S NO. 2265
No. 1656 Session of 1990
INTRODUCED BY PETERSON, ROCKS, CORMAN, BRIGHTBILL, MADIGAN,
LOEPER, PUNT, RHOADES, WILT, O'PAKE, HELFRICK, DAWIDA,
STAPLETON, WENGER, JUBELIRER, BAKER, LEMMOND, HOPPER AND
PORTERFIELD, JUNE 7, 1990
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, JUNE 7, 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:
17 (1) On or after June 1, 1991, each medical school and
1 osteopathic medical college shall make a good faith effort to
2 ensure that 25% of each graduating class, subsequent to the
3 class of 1995 enter family or general practice residencies.
4 (2) In 1995, the General Assembly shall reduce the
5 annual appropriation of a medical school or osteopathic
6 medical college for failure to graduate the required
7 percentage of family or general practitioners. The reduction
8 shall be calculated by applying the difference between the
9 actual percentage graduating and entering family or general
10 practice residencies and the required 25% to the annual
11 appropriation and reducing the appropriation by the figure
12 thus obtained.
13 (3) Beginning in 1996, the amount of the annual
14 appropriation reduction shall be two times the figure
15 obtained in applying the formula of paragraph (2).
16 (b) Annual report.--Each medical school and osteopathic
17 medical college shall annually, on or before March 15, report to
18 the Senate and the House of Representatives the results and
19 progress of the family or general practice programs established
20 under this act.
21 Section 2. Effective date.
22 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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