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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

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7     LONG TITLE
8     General Description:
9          This bill requires the University of Utah Health Sciences to select additional psychiatry
10     residents.
11     Highlighted Provisions:
12          This bill:
13          ▸     defines terms;
14          ▸     requires the University of Utah Health Sciences to select additional psychiatry
15     residents; and
16          ▸     enacts provisions related to money used for psychiatry residents.
17     Money Appropriated in this Bill:
18          None
19     Other Special Clauses:
20          None
21     Utah Code Sections Affected:
22     ENACTS:
23          53B-17-902, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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25     Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
26          Section 1. Section 53B-17-902 is enacted to read:
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Part 9. Health Sciences and School of Medicine


28          53B-17-902. Health Sciences -- Psychiatry medical residents selection.
29          (1) As used in this section:
30          (a) "Psychiatry resident" means a medical resident practicing in any type of psychiatry
31     specialty or subspecialty, as determined by the university.
32          (b) "University" means the University of Utah Health Sciences.
33          (2) (a) Subject to legislative appropriations, beginning with the 2020-21 academic year,
34     the university shall annually select up to four more first-year psychiatry residents than the
35     number of first-year psychiatry residents the university selected for the 2018-19 academic year.
36          (b) Nothing in this section prohibits the university from using money from a source
37     other than legislative appropriations to select more than the total number of psychiatry
38     residents described in Subsection (2)(a).
39          (3) The university may not use money appropriated for the purposes described in this
40     section to supplant existing money used for psychiatry residents.