Adopted
AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO
Cmte Sub for Senate Bill No. 2729
BY: Senator(s) McLendon
AMEND on line 52 after the word "OB-GYN" by inserting the following:
, Mississippi Psychiatric Association
FURTHER, AMEND on line 90 by striking the words "brought forward" and inserting "amended" in lieu thereof.
FURTHER, AMEND on line 95 after the words "family physicians" and insert the words ", child psychiatrists"
FURTHER, AMEND on line 101 after the words "family medicine" and insert the words ", child psychiatry"
FURTHER, AMEND by inserting the following section as new SECTION 13 on line 391 and renumber the sections that follow
SECTION *. Section 37-144-3, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-144-3. (1) The Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program shall be administered by a commission to be known as the "Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Commission." The commission shall be directed by a board composed of the following members:
(a) Two (2) generalist physicians appointed by and from the membership of the Mississippi State Medical Association, the term of which shall be three (3) years and may be reappointed for one (1) additional term;
(b) One (1) generalist physician appointed by and from the membership of each of the following organizations, the term of which shall be three (3) years and may be reappointed for one (1) additional term:
(i) Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians;
(ii) Mississippi Chapter, American College of Physicians;
(iii) Mississippi Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics;
(iv) Mississippi Chapter, American College of OB-GYN;
(v) * * * Mississippi Psychiatric
Association;
( * * *vi) Mississippi Medical and Surgical
Association;
( * * *vii) Mississippi Osteopathic
Association;
(c) Two (2) designees of the Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine whose terms are at the discretion of the dean, at least one (1) of whom is a member of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine Admissions Committee;
(d) Two (2) medical students, one (1) of whom shall be selected yearly through a process developed by the Dean of the School of Medicine in consultation with the Chairs of the Departments of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB-GYN and Pediatrics, and one (1) of whom shall be nominated for a one-year term by the Mississippi Chapter of the Student National Medical Association and approved by the Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine;
(e) A member of the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning;
(f) The Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine; and
(g) A licensed psychiatrist appointed by the Mississippi Chapter of the American Psychiatric Association.
(2) The premedical advisors from the accredited four-year colleges and universities in the state and the directors or designees of the primary care generalist training programs in the State of Mississippi shall comprise an advisory committee to the commission to assist the commission in its administration of the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program.
(3) Vacancies on the commission must be filled in a manner consistent with the original appointments.
(4)
All appointments to the commission must be made no later than September 1, * * * 2024. After the members are
appointed, the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine shall set a date for
the organizational meeting that is mutually acceptable to the majority of the
commission members. The organizational meeting shall be for the purposes of
organizing the commission and establishing rules for transacting its business.
A majority of the members of the commission shall constitute a quorum at all
commission meetings. An affirmative vote of a majority of the members present
and voting shall be required in the adoption of rules, reports and in any other
actions taken by the commission. At the organizational meeting, the commission
shall elect a chair and vice chair from the members appointed according to
paragraphs (a) through (d) of subsection (1). The chair shall serve for a term
of two (2) years, upon the expiration of which the vice chair shall assume the
office of chair.
(5) After the organizational meeting, the commission shall hold no less than two (2) meetings annually.
(6) The commission may form an executive committee for the purpose of transacting business that must be conducted before the next regularly scheduled meeting of the commission. All actions taken by the executive committee must be ratified by the commission at its next regularly scheduled meeting.
(7) Members of the commission shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed, subject to the availability of funding, for mileage and actual and necessary expenses incurred in attending meetings of the commission.
(8) Funding for the establishment and continued operation of the program and commission shall be appropriated out of any money in the General Fund not already appropriated to the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Further, amend the title to conform.