§ 25.5-1-603 — Duties of commission - reporting

(1) The commission shall:

(a) Assure that family medicine residency program standards are equal to or
more stringent than the standards established by the accreditation council on
graduate medical education of the American medical association or the American
osteopathic association for residency training in family medicine;

(b) In cooperation with the dean of the school of medicine, approve and
recommend allocation of any funds which are identified and appropriated in the
general appropriation bill as a line item for any community family medicine
residency training program;

(c) Monitor the state's family medicine residency programs and recommend
from time to time that the general assembly appropriate funds for said programs;

(d) Locate specific areas of the state which are underserved by family
physicians and determine the priority of need among such areas;

(e) Offer to the general assembly alternative ideas on providing medical care
to the medically indigent in the state; and

(f) (I) Support the development and maintenance of family medicine
residency programs in rural and other underserved areas of the state for purposes
of cultivating family medicine practitioners who are likely to continue practicing in
rural and underserved areas of the state at the conclusion of their residency
programs.

(II) On or before each November 1, the commission shall report to the office
of state planning and budgeting and to the department of health care policy and
financing concerning rural family medicine residency programs in the state and the
role of the commission with respect to supporting the development and
maintenance of those programs. In addition, notwithstanding section 24-1-136 (11),
the commission shall present the report to the joint budget committee as part of its
annual presentation to that committee.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2017: Entire part added, (HB 17-1024), ch. 7, p. 20, � 1, effective August 9.