By Uher H.B. No. 2099
75R5121 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to student loan reimbursements for physician assistants
1-3 practicing in certain areas.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 24(a), Physician Assistant Licensing Act
1-6 (Article 4495b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by
1-7 Section 1, Chapter 365, and Section 1, Chapter 783, Acts of the
1-8 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as
1-9 follows:
1-10 (a) The board [council] shall designate annually a portion
1-11 of the revenue generated under this Act from physician assistant
1-12 licensing fees to be set aside to provide student loan
1-13 reimbursement for graduates of physician assistant training
1-14 programs from any [in this] state who practice in rural health
1-15 professional shortage areas and [or rural] medically underserved
1-16 areas identified by the Texas Department of Health.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.