By: Truan S.B. No. 1604 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the rural physician assistant loan reimbursement 1-2 program. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 23, Physician Assistant 1-5 Licensing Act (Article 4495b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) The council shall designate annually a portion of the 1-8 revenue generated under this Act from physician assistant licensing 1-9 fees to be set aside to provide student loan reimbursement for 1-10 graduates of physician assistant training programs in this state 1-11 who practice in rural health professional shortage areas or rural 1-12 medically underserved areas identified by the Texas Department of 1-13 Health. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.