1-1  By:  Truan                                            S.B. No. 1604
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 21, 1995; March 22, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 20, 1995,
    1-4  reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 10,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 20, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Truan
    1-7  Amend S.B. 1604 as follows:
    1-8        On page 1, line 12 (committee printing page 1, line 22),
    1-9  between "areas" and "rural" strike "and" and substitute "or".
   1-10                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-11                                AN ACT
   1-12  relating to the rural physician assistant loan reimbursement
   1-13  program.
   1-14        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-15        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 23, Physician Assistant
   1-16  Licensing Act (Article 4495b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
   1-17  amended to read as follows:
   1-18        (a)  The council shall designate annually a portion of the
   1-19  revenue generated under this Act from physician assistant licensing
   1-20  fees to be set aside to provide student loan reimbursement for
   1-21  graduates of physician assistant training programs in this state
   1-22  who practice in rural health professional shortage areas and rural
   1-23  medically underserved areas <identified by the Texas Department of
   1-24  Health>.
   1-25        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-26        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-27  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-28  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-29  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-30  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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