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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 52 1 of 2 | |
| 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 19 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 52 | |
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| 9 | 9 | ||
| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist. | |
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| 17 | 17 | ||
| 18 | 18 | AN ACT ESTABLISHING A STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM | |
| 19 | 19 | FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS WORKING IN THE | |
| 20 | 20 | DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION. | |
| 21 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 22 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 24 | 24 | That the sum of one million dollars be appropriated to the 1 | |
| 25 | 25 | Department of Correction, from the General Fund, for each of the fiscal 2 | |
| 26 | 26 | years ending June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, to establish a student loan 3 | |
| 27 | 27 | repayment program for health care professionals working full-time in 4 | |
| 28 | 28 | the Department of Correction, in which such professionals would be 5 | |
| 29 | 29 | eligible to receive up to fifty thousand dollars in student loan 6 | |
| 30 | 30 | repayment, to be distributed after a certain number of years of 7 | |
| 31 | 31 | employment with the department as follows: (1) Five thousand dollars 8 | |
| 32 | 32 | after the second year, (2) seven thousand five hundred dollars after the 9 | |
| 33 | 33 | third year, (3) seven thousand five hundred dollars after the fourth year, 10 | |
| 34 | 34 | (4) fifteen thousand dollars after the fifth year, and (5) fifteen thousand 11 | |
| 35 | 35 | dollars after the sixth year. 12 Proposed Bill No. 19 | |
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| 37 | 37 | ||
| 38 | 38 | LCO No. 52 2 of 2 | |
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| 40 | 40 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 41 | 41 | To recruit and retain health care providers to work within the state | |
| 42 | 42 | correctional system. |