1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Patterson) H.B. No. 2099
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997;
1-3 May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
1-4 and Human Services; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to student loan reimbursements for physician assistants
1-9 practicing in certain areas.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 24(a), Physician Assistant Licensing Act
1-12 (Article 4495b-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by
1-13 Section 1, Chapter 365, and Section 1, Chapter 783, Acts of the
1-14 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as
1-15 follows:
1-16 (a) The board [council] shall designate annually a portion
1-17 of the revenue generated under this Act from physician assistant
1-18 licensing fees to be set aside to provide student loan
1-19 reimbursement for graduates of physician assistant training
1-20 programs from any [in this] state who practice in rural health
1-21 professional shortage areas and [or rural] medically underserved
1-22 areas identified by the Texas Department of Health.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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