Sec. 61.9802.  PROGRAM:  ESTABLISHMENT; ADMINISTRATION; PURPOSE.  (a)  The Texas emergency and trauma care education partnership program is established.
(b)  The board shall administer the program in accordance with this subchapter and rules adopted under this subchapter.
(c)  Under the program, to the extent funds are available under Section 61.9805, the board shall make grants to emergency and trauma care education partnerships to assist those partnerships to meet the state's needs for doctors and registered nurses with training in emergency and trauma care by offering one-year or two-year fellowships to students enrolled in graduate professional nursing or graduate medical education programs through collaboration between hospitals and graduate  professional nursing or graduate medical education programs and the use of the existing expertise and facilities of those hospitals and programs.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 (S.B. 7), Sec. 9.01, eff. September 28, 2011.