FIFTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2021

 

February 5, 2021

 

 

 

Mr. Speaker:

 

    Your EDUCATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

 

HOUSE BILL 23

 

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

 

     1. On page 1, line 21, after the paragraph designation "(1)", strike the remainder of the line and strike lines 22 through 24 in their entirety and insert in lieu thereof:

 

"for the purpose of providing third- and fourth-year medical student training, demonstrate that the school has obtained executed agreements with at least four clinical affiliates in New Mexico that have sufficient capacity to provide access to a comprehensive training program for its students. The medical school shall ensure that these agreements represent urban, rural and frontier areas;".

 

     2. On page 2, line 4, after the paragraph designation "(3)", strike the remainder of the line and strike lines 5 through 14 in their entirety and insert in lieu thereof:

 

"for the purpose of building new graduate medical education residency training, demonstrate the ability to facilitate the creation of such new graduate medical education residency programs within New Mexico, with a preference for primary care programs as defined by the state, in urban, frontier and rural medical facilities. At a minimum, the medical school applicant shall demonstrate and provide documentation that the applicant is the procuring cause for the creation of at least one first-year resident position in New Mexico for every ten students in the applicant's initial approved class size. When possible, preference shall be given to primary care programs in urban, frontier and rural areas.".

 

     3. On page 2, line 20, strike "ambulatory care center" and insert in lieu thereof "outpatient medical clinic or center".

 

     4. On page 2, between lines 21 and 22, insert the following new paragraph:

 

                "(2) "comprehensive training" means that the clinical affiliate has the capability to provide all of the following services within its premises: inpatient adult medical and surgical services, pediatrics, labor and delivery, emergency room and critical care services;".

 

     5. Renumber the succeeding paragraphs accordingly.

 

     6. On page 3, between lines 21 and 22, insert the following new paragraph:

 

                "(8) "primary care" means family medicine, general psychiatry, general internal medicine, general pediatrics and pediatric medicine;".

 

     7. Renumber the succeeding paragraphs accordingly.

 

     8. On page 3, line 22, after "means", strike the remainder of the line, strike lines 23 through 25 in their entirety and insert in lieu thereof "evidence that the medical school has created graduate medical education positions in the state, either at the medical school's own medical facility or through partnerships with third-party clinical affiliates; and".,

 

 

                             

                             Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

                                                                 

G. ANDRES ROMERO, CHAIR

 

 

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

 

Date

 

 

The roll call vote was 13 For 1 Against

Yes:      13

No:       Chatfield

Excused:  Garratt

Absent:   None

 

 

 

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