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Providing for loan repayment under the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment program to physicians who are national guard members and practice full-time in service commitment areas
Sponsored by the House Appropriations Committee
Topics:State budget
Same legislation: HSB 255
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedApril 23, 2019
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill expands the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment program to provide that, subject to the availability of transferred or deposited funds, a physician licensed in this state who is a member of the Iowa national guard and is engaged in full-time practice of medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in a service commitment area for a period of five years qualifies for eligible educational loan repayment of up to $30,000 annually. If a physician in the Iowa national guard meets the requirements for loan repayment as provided in the bill, moneys that were appropriated for purposes of the national guard educational assistance program that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall be transferred to the rural Iowa primary care trust fund in an amount necessary to make loan repayments for the physician.
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The total amount of loan repayment over the five-year period is limited to not more than $150,000. “Service commitment area” is defined for purposes of the program as a city in Iowa with a population of less than 26,000 that is located more than miles from a city with a population of 50,000 or more and which provides a $20,000 contribution for deposit in the rural Iowa primary care trust fund for each physician in the community who is participating in the loan repayment program. Under the bill, the service commitment area’s contribution for a physician who is a national guard member is $15,000.
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