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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 1603 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 704 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2025 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 1603 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SEN. GORDON, 35th Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | AN ACT ESTABLISHING A LOAN FORGIVENESS PROGRAM AND A |
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| 19 | 19 | | TUITION PAYMENT PROGRAM FOR HEALTH CARE |
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| 20 | 20 | | PROFESSIONALS. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 22 | 22 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 24 | 24 | | That the general statutes be amended to establish (1) a loan 1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | forgiveness program that forgives up to fifty thousand dollars of 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | graduate school loans for health care professionals who (A) are not 3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | participating in another state or federal loan forgiveness or loan 4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | reimbursement program, (B) obtain and maintain licensure as a health 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | care professional by the Department of Public Health, and (C) agree to 6 |
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| 30 | 30 | | work in the state for a minimum of four years of full-time work or a 7 |
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| 31 | 31 | | minimum of eight years of part-time work as a health care professional 8 |
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| 32 | 32 | | in a rural or other underserved area or in a health care field with a 9 |
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| 33 | 33 | | workforce shortage, and (2) a tuition payment program for students 10 |
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| 34 | 34 | | enrolled in a graduate degree or graduate certificate program in a health 11 |
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| 35 | 35 | | care related field of an amount up to the cost of tuition for such program, 12 |
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| 36 | 36 | | provided such students (A) are not participating in another state or 13 |
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| 37 | 37 | | federal loan forgiveness or loan reimbursement program, and (B) agree 14 |
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| 38 | 38 | | to work in the state for a minimum of four years of full-time work or a 15 Proposed Bill No. 704 |
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| 41 | 41 | | LCO No. 1603 2 of 2 |
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| 43 | 43 | | minimum of eight years of part-time work as a health care professional 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | in a rural or other underserved area or in a health care field with a 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | workforce shortage. 18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 47 | 47 | | To address the shortage of health care professionals in rural and |
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| 48 | 48 | | underserved areas in the state. |
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