SB3062 Summary

• Renames the "Family Practice Residency Act" to the "Family Practice and Behavioral Health Promotion Act" and expands programs to include behavioral health care professionals alongside primary care physicians.

• Defines eligible behavioral health care professionals to include psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatric nurse specialists, marriage and family therapists, and clinical professional counselors with behavioral health training.

• Establishes new funding priorities and grant programs for behavioral health care residencies and professionals in designated shortage areas, including loan repayment and scholarship programs.

• Expands the Advisory Committee from 9 to 13 members to include 4 representatives of behavioral health care programs, ensuring behavioral health care input in program administration.

• Requires funding for family practice residency programs to remain at or above fiscal year 2015 levels and prohibits diversion of those funds to support behavioral health care programs.