Florida Senate - 2009 CS for SB 1614
By the Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability;
and Senator Oelrich
585-04495-09 20091614c1
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to state funding for medical student
3 education; creating s. 1011.905, F.S.; providing
4 legislative intent; requiring the Board of Governors
5 of the State University System, in consultation with
6 the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government
7 Accountability and representatives from Doctor of
8 Medicine degree programs, to develop a funding
9 methodology for Doctor of Medicine degree programs at
10 state universities; requiring the funding methodology
11 to provide a consistent base level of state support on
12 a per-student basis; providing duties of the Board of
13 Governors in developing the funding methodology;
14 requiring a report; requiring use of the funding
15 methodology in the development of legislative budget
16 requests; providing an effective date.
17
18 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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20 Section 1. Section 1011.905, Florida Statutes, is created
21 to read:
22 1011.905 State funding for Doctor of Medicine degree
23 programs at state universities.—
24 (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to use a funding
25 methodology for 4-year Doctor of Medicine degree programs which
26 provides a consistent base level of state support on a per
27 student basis for each such program at state universities.
28 (2) The Board of Governors, in consultation with the Office
29 of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability and
30 representatives from each of the 4-year Doctor of Medicine
31 degree programs, shall develop a funding methodology for 4-year
32 Doctor of Medicine degree programs offered by state
33 universities. The funding methodology shall provide for a
34 consistent base level of state support on a per-student basis
35 for each such program. As part of the development of the funding
36 methodology, the Board of Governors shall:
37 (a) Review prior-year expenditures for each of the 4-year
38 Doctor of Medicine degree programs, including expenditures from
39 all funding sources.
40 (b) Review national data on the costs associated with 4
41 year Doctor of Medicine degree programs offered by public
42 universities.
43 (c) Determine a base-level cost per student which excludes
44 supplemental costs or startup costs.
45 (d) Determine supplemental costs and startup costs that are
46 in addition to the base-level cost per student and that support
47 the unique mission of a degree program or support the
48 implementation of new 4-year Doctor of Medicine degree programs.
49 (e) Determine a uniform reporting procedure for the
50 consistent annual reporting of expenditures for 4-year Doctor of
51 Medicine degree programs.
52 (f) Determine a uniform reporting procedure for the
53 consistent annual reporting of outcome data for 4-year Doctor of
54 Medicine degree programs, including, but not limited to,
55 enrollment statistics, graduation and retention rates, passage
56 rates for the Step 1 and Step 2 United States Medical Licensing
57 Examinations, placement rates in residency positions in this
58 state, and placement rates in the physician workforce in this
59 state.
60 (3) The Board of Governors shall submit a report detailing
61 the funding methodology developed pursuant to subsection (2) to
62 the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of
63 the House of Representatives no later than February 1, 2010.
64 (4) The Board of Governors shall use the funding
65 methodology developed pursuant to subsection (2) to develop the
66 legislative budget request for 4-year Doctor of Medicine degree
67 programs at state universities. For the 2010-2011 fiscal year,
68 the Board of Governors shall submit by March 1, 2010, an amended
69 legislative budget request based on the funding methodology.
70 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.