1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to higher education; appropriating money to North Memorial Hospital for 
1.3 	the family practice residency program.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; NORTH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FAMILY 
1.6 	PRACTICE RESIDENCY.
 1.7 	$350,000 in fiscal year 2018 and $350,000 in fiscal year 2019 are appropriated to the 
1.8 	commissioner of higher education for a grant to North Memorial Hospital to support up to 
1.9 	ten physicians in the family practice residency program. The grant must be used to prepare 
1.10 	doctors to practice primary care medicine in rural and urban underserved areas of the state, 
1.11 	for the purpose of improving health care in rural communities, providing affordable access 
1.12 	to appropriate medical care, and managing the treatment of patients in a more cost-effective 
1.13 	manner.