SB 22 Summary

• Appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the Director of Statewide Health Planning and Development for funding new and existing graduate medical education physician residency positions and training faculty under the Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act.

• Distributes the $300 million appropriation over three fiscal years: $100 million in 2016-17, $100 million in 2017-18, and $100 million in 2018-19.

• Addresses California's primary care physician shortage by preventing the loss of 158 family medicine training slots that would result from expiring federal funding in 2016.

• Funds are to support residency positions in primary care specialties including family medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and psychiatry in medically underserved areas.