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PSYCHIATRY MEDICAL RESIDENTS AMENDMENTS

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2019 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Steve Eliason

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Senate Sponsor: Ralph Okerlund

6     Cosponsors:
7     Craig Hall
Brian S. King
Carol Spackman Moss
Mike Winder

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9     LONG TITLE
10     General Description:
11          This bill requires the University of Utah Health Sciences to select additional psychiatry
12     residents.
13     Highlighted Provisions:
14          This bill:
15          ▸     defines terms;
16          ▸     requires the University of Utah Health Sciences to select additional psychiatry
17     residents; and
18          ▸     enacts provisions related to money used for psychiatry residents.
19     Money Appropriated in this Bill:
20          None
21     Other Special Clauses:
22          None
23     Utah Code Sections Affected:
24     ENACTS:
25          53B-17-902, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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27     Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:

28          Section 1. Section 53B-17-902 is enacted to read:
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Part 9. Health Sciences and School of Medicine

30          53B-17-902. Health Sciences -- Psychiatry medical residents selection.
31          (1) As used in this section:
32          (a) "Psychiatry resident" means a medical resident practicing in any type of psychiatry
33     specialty or subspecialty, as determined by the university.
34          (b) "University" means the University of Utah Health Sciences.
35          (2) (a) Subject to legislative appropriations, beginning with the 2020-21 academic year,
36     the university shall annually select up to four more first-year psychiatry residents than the
37     number of first-year psychiatry residents the university selected for the 2018-19 academic year.
38          (b) Nothing in this section prohibits the university from using money from a source
39     other than legislative appropriations to select more than the total number of psychiatry
40     residents described in Subsection (2)(a).
41          (3) The university may not use money appropriated for the purposes described in this
42     section to supplant existing money used for psychiatry residents.