By: Sibley S.B. No. 218
73R3197 SOS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to loan repayment assistance for certain family practice
1-3 physicians.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 61.532, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 61.532. Eligibility. (a) To be eligible to receive
1-8 repayment assistance, a physician must apply to the coordinating
1-9 board and have completed at least one year of medical practice:
1-10 (1) in private practice in an economically depressed
1-11 or rural medically underserved area of the state; <or>
1-12 (2) for one of the following state agencies:
1-13 (A) Texas Department of Health;
1-14 (B) Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental
1-15 Retardation;
1-16 (C) Texas Department of Corrections; or
1-17 (D) Texas Youth Commission; or
1-18 (3) for an approved family practice residency training
1-19 program established under Subchapter I of this chapter.
1-20 (b) The coordinating board may by rule provide for repayment
1-21 assistance on a pro rata basis for physicians practicing part-time
1-22 for an approved family practice residency training program
1-23 established under Subchapter I of this chapter or a state agency
1-24 specified in Subsection (a) of this section.
2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.