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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