§ 25.5-1-601. Legislative Declaration

1. The general assembly hereby finds and declares that:
   1. Physicians engaged in family medicine are in critically short supply in this state;
   2. Because of the distribution of such physicians, many rural and urban areas of the state are underserved;
   3. A significant portion of the state population is medically underserved because of indigency;
   4. Family physicians provide health care to all segments of the population;
   5. The provision of more competent family physicians is a public purpose of great importance; and
   6. The creation of the commission on family medicine is a desirable, necessary, and cost-effective means of addressing the needs described in this subsection (1).

Source: L. 2017: Entire part added, (HB 17-1024), ch. 7, p. 19, § 1, effective August 9.

Editor’s note: This section is similar to former § 25-1-901 as it existed prior to 2017.