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HF 2660

as introduced - 89th Legislature (2015 - 2016) Posted on 03/24/2016 04:34pm

KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.

Bill Text Versions

Engrossments
Introduction Posted on 03/08/2016

Current Version - as introduced

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A bill for an act
relating to higher education; establishing a grant program for an addiction
medicine graduate medical education fellowship program; appropriating money.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin APPROPRIATION; ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRANT PROGRAM
FOR AN ADDICTION MEDICINE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.
new text end

new text begin $280,000 in fiscal year 2017 is appropriated from the general fund to the Office
of Higher Education for the purposes of establishing a grant program used to support
up to four physicians who are enrolled each year in an addiction medicine fellowship
program. A grant recipient must be enrolled in a program that trains fellows in diagnostic
interviewing, motivational interviewing, addiction counseling, recognition and care of
common acute withdrawal syndromes and complications, pharmacotherapies of addictive
disorders, epidemiology and pathophysiology of addiction, addictive disorders in special
populations, secondary interventions, use of screening and diagnostic instruments,
inpatient care, and working within a multidisciplinary team, and prepares doctors to
practice addiction medicine in rural and underserved areas of the state.
new text end