87R5984 MM-D
By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 575
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Nursing Faculty Loan Repayment Assistance Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.9822, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 61.9822. ELIGIBILITY. To be eligible to receive loan
repayment assistance under this subchapter, a nurse must:
(1) apply to the board;
(2) at the time of application for repayment
assistance have been employed part-time or full-time for at least
one year as, and be currently employed part-time or full-time as, a
faculty member of a nursing degree program at an institution of
higher education or a private or independent institution of higher
education; and
(3) comply with any additional requirements adopted by
board rule.
SECTION 2. Sections 61.9823(a) and (b), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) On qualifying for loan repayment assistance under this
subchapter, a nurse may receive repayment assistance for each year
of part-time or full-time employment as a faculty member of a
nursing degree program at an institution of higher education or
private or independent institution of higher education, not to
exceed five years.
(b) The board by rule shall determine the maximum amount of
loan repayment assistance received by a nurse under this subchapter
[may not exceed $7,000] in any one year. The board shall base the
amount of loan repayment assistance received by a nurse for
part-time employment on the proportion of the number of hours
worked by the nurse to the number of hours worked by a full-time
nurse.
SECTION 3. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective
date of this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
shall adopt rules necessary to administer the changes in law made by
this Act.
(b) The changes in law made by this Act apply beginning with
loan repayment assistance awarded under Subchapter JJ, Chapter 61,
Education Code, for the 2022-2023 academic year. Loan repayment
assistance awarded under Subchapter JJ, Chapter 61, Education Code,
for an academic year before the 2022-2023 academic year is governed
by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this
Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.