Minnesota Legislature
HF 113
as introduced - 86th Legislature (2009 - 2010) Posted on 02/09/2010 01:33am
Current Version - as introduced
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A bill for an act
relating to health; expanding the health professional education loan forgiveness
program for child mental health professionals; appropriating money; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 144.1501, subdivision 2.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 144.1501, subdivision 2, is amended to
read:
Subd. 2.
Creation of account.
(a) A health professional education loan forgiveness
program account is established. The commissioner of health shall use money from the
account to establish a loan forgiveness program:
(1) for medical residents agreeing to practice in designated rural areas or underserved
urban communities or specializing in the area of pediatric psychiatry;
(2) for midlevel practitioners agreeing to practice in designated rural areasnew text begin , or in
the area of pediatric psychiatry or mental health,new text end or to teach at least 12 credit hours, or
720 hours per year in the nursing field in a postsecondary program at the undergraduate
level or the equivalent at the graduate level;
(3) for nurses deleted text begin who agreedeleted text end new text begin agreeing new text end to practice in a Minnesota nursing home deleted text begin ordeleted text end new text begin , annew text end
intermediate care facility for persons with developmental disabilitynew text begin , or in a hospital
pediatric psychiatric unitnew text end or to teach at least 12 credit hours, or 720 hours per year in the
nursing field in a postsecondary program at the undergraduate level or the equivalent at
the graduate level;
(4) for other health care technicians agreeing to teach at least 12 credit hours, or 720
hours per year in their designated field in a postsecondary program at the undergraduate
level or the equivalent at the graduate level. The commissioner, in consultation with
the Healthcare Education-Industry Partnership, shall determine the health care fields
where the need is the greatest, including, but not limited to, respiratory therapy, clinical
laboratory technology, radiologic technology, and surgical technology;
(5) for pharmacists who agree to practice in designated rural areas; and
(6) for dentists agreeing to deliver at least 25 percent of the dentist's yearly patient
encounters to state public program enrollees or patients receiving sliding fee schedule
discounts through a formal sliding fee schedule meeting the standards established by
the United States Department of Health and Human Services under Code of Federal
Regulations, title 42, section 51, chapter 303.
(b) Appropriations made to the account do not cancel and are available until
expended, except that at the end of each biennium, any remaining balance in the account
that is not committed by contract and not needed to fulfill existing commitments shall
cancel to the fund.
Sec. 2. new text begin APPROPRIATION.
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$....... is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of health for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2009, for the expansion of the health professional education
loan forgiveness program as described in section 1.
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