Budget Amendment ID: FY2025-S4-590

EHS 590

Reproductive Health Care Training Access Pilot Program

Ms. Rausch moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4510-0100, by inserting the following:- “; provided, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for a reproductive health care training grant program for out-of-state medical residents to obtain reproductive health care training consistent with residency programs in the commonwealth, including but not limited to abortion care training; provided further, that grants shall be issued to hospitals in the commonwealth that provide abortion care training to medical residents; provided further, that hospital grant recipients shall create and implement an application process for medical students completing residencies in states with abortion restriction laws; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of section 9A of chapter 112 of the General Laws, a medical student who has creditably completed not less than two years of study in a legally chartered medical school wherever located may practice medicine in a licensed health care facility in the commonwealth where reproductive care may be lawfully provided under the supervision of a health care provider licensed in the commonwealth who, acting within the scope of that license, may provide reproductive care; and provided further, that not later than April 1, 2025, the department shall submit to the joint committee on public health, the joint committee on health care financing, the house and senate committees on ways and means, and the clerks of the house and senate a grant utilization report including, but not limited to, the number of medical student applicants to grant recipient programs, the number of applicants accepted into the programs, and one or more program descriptions”; and by striking out the figure “$60,051,007” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- “$60,201,007”.