HB3820 - Relating to requiring an opportunity for an annual physical examination for certain students, interns, residents, and fellows enrolled in or receiving residency training or clinical education from public and private medical schools and graduate medical education programs.

  89R9377 MM-D     By: Moody H.B. No. 3820       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to requiring an opportunity for an annual physical   examination for certain students, interns, residents, and fellows   enrolled in or receiving residency training or clinical education   from public and private medical schools and graduate medical   education programs.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is   amended by adding Section 51.9521 to read as follows:           Sec.   51.9521.     PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL AND   GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION STUDENTS. (a)     In this section:                 (1)     "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher   Education Coordinating Board.                 (2)     "Graduate medical education program" has the   meaning assigned by Section 58A.001.                 (3)     "Medical school" has the meaning assigned by   Section 61.501.           (b)     The coordinating board by rule shall require medical   schools and graduate medical education programs to, for each   student, intern, resident, and fellow, as applicable, enrolled in   the medical school or receiving residency training or clinical   education under the graduate medical education program, as   applicable:                 (1)     designate a time during each academic year to   receive a physical examination; and                 (2)     provide notification of the availability and   importance of receiving an annual physical examination.          SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026   academic year.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.