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MENTAL HEALTH WORKFORCE AMENDMENTS

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2020 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Susan Duckworth

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Senate Sponsor: ____________

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7     LONG TITLE
8     General Description:
9          This bill amends provisions relating to the selection of psychiatry medical residents.
10     Highlighted Provisions:
11          This bill:
12          ▸     subject to legislative appropriations, requires the University of Utah Health
13     Sciences to select two additional psychiatry residents in the 2021-22 academic year.
14     Money Appropriated in this Bill:
15          None
16     Other Special Clauses:
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18     Utah Code Sections Affected:
19     AMENDS:
20          53B-17-902, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2019, Chapter 442
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22     Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
23          Section 1. Section 53B-17-902 is amended to read:
24          53B-17-902. Health Sciences -- Psychiatry medical residents selection.
25          (1) As used in this section:
26          (a) "Psychiatry resident" means a medical resident practicing in any type of psychiatry
27     specialty or subspecialty, as determined by the university.

28          (b) "University" means the University of Utah Health Sciences.
29          (2) (a) Subject to legislative appropriations, beginning with the 2020-21 academic year,
30     the university shall annually select up to four more first-year psychiatry residents than the
31     number of first-year psychiatry residents the university selected for the 2018-19 academic year.
32          (b) Subject to legislative appropriations, beginning with the 2021-22 academic year,
33     the university shall annually select up to two more first-year psychiatry residents than the
34     number of first-year psychiatry residents the university selected for the 2019-2020 academic
35     year.
36          [(b)] (c) Nothing in this section prohibits the university from using money from a
37     source other than legislative appropriations to select more than the total number of psychiatry
38     residents described in Subsection (2)(a) or (b).
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.