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. E4L35JRW/19900S1656B2265 - 2 -