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1	1	By: Madden (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) H.B. No. 1908
2	2	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2011;
3	3	April 26, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on
4	4	Criminal Justice; May 12, 2011, reported favorably by the
5	5	following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 2011, sent to printer.)
6	6
7	7
8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to student loan repayment assistance for certain providers
11	11	of correctional health care.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Section 61.532, Education Code, is amended to
14	14	read as follows:
15	15	Sec. 61.532. ELIGIBILITY. [(a)] To be eligible to receive
16	16	repayment assistance, a physician must:
17	17	(1) apply to the coordinating board;
18	18	(2) at the time of application, be licensed to
19	19	practice medicine under Subtitle B, Title 3, Occupations Code;
20	20	(3) have completed one, two, three, or four
21	21	consecutive years of practice in a health professional shortage
22	22	area designated by the Department of State Health Services; and
23	23	(4) provide health care services to:
24	24	(A) recipients under the medical assistance
25	25	program authorized by Chapter 32, Human Resources Code; [or]
26	26	(B) enrollees under the child health plan program
27	27	authorized by Chapter 62, Health and Safety Code; or
28	28	(C) persons committed to a secure correctional
29	29	facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Youth
30	30	Commission or persons confined in a secure correctional facility
31	31	operated by or under contract with any division of the Texas
32	32	Department of Criminal Justice.
33	33	SECTION 2. Section 61.533, Education Code, is amended to
34	34	read as follows:
35	35	Sec. 61.533. LIMITATION. (a) A physician may receive
36	36	repayment assistance grants for not more than four years.
37	37	(b) Repayment assistance grants paid in relation to
38	38	services described by Section 61.532(4)(C) are limited to the first
39	39	10 physicians who establish eligibility for those grants each year.
40	40	SECTION 3. Subchapter E, Chapter 501, Government Code, is
41	41	amended by adding Section 501.156 to read as follows:
42	42	Sec. 501.156. STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE. (a) From
43	43	funds appropriated for purposes of correctional managed health
44	44	care, the committee may provide student loan repayment assistance
45	45	for medical and mental health care physicians and other staff
46	46	providing correctional managed health care. The repayment
47	47	assistance may be applied to any student loan received through any
48	48	lender for education at a public or accredited private institution
49	49	of higher education in the United States, including loans for
50	50	undergraduate, graduate, and medical education.
51	51	(b) The committee may adopt rules to implement this section,
52	52	including rules governing eligibility for the loan repayment
53	53	assistance and the terms of contracts between the committee and
54	54	recipients of the loan repayment assistance. In adopting those
55	55	rules, the committee shall consider the requirements of Subchapter
56	56	J, Chapter 61, Education Code, and the rules of the Texas Higher
57	57	Education Coordinating Board adopted under that subchapter.
58	58	(c) A physician may not receive loan repayment assistance
59	59	under both this section and Subchapter J, Chapter 61, Education
60	60	Code.
61	61	(d) Not later than December 1 of each state fiscal year, the
62	62	committee shall submit a report to the Legislative Budget Board and
63	63	the governor on the use of funds under this section for the
64	64	preceding fiscal year.
65	65	SECTION 4. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
66	66	shall:
67	67	(1) not later than December 1, 2011, adopt any rules
68	68	necessary under Sections 61.532 and 61.533, Education Code, as
69	69	amended by this Act; and
70	70	(2) not later than January 1, 2012, begin providing as
71	71	permitted by those sections student loan repayment assistance to
72	72	providers of health care in secure correctional facilities.
73	73	SECTION 5. The Correctional Managed Health Care Committee
74	74	shall:
75	75	(1) not later than December 1, 2011, adopt the rules
76	76	for the provision of student loan repayment assistance under
77	77	Section 501.156, Government Code, as added by this Act; and
78	78	(2) not later than January 1, 2012, begin providing
79	79	student loan repayment assistance under that section.
80	80	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
81	81	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
82	82	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
83	83	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
84	84	Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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