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Relating to specialty areas, service commitment area distance requirements, and practice-related requirements under the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment program
Sponsored by the Senate Education Committee
Topics:K–12 educationHealth care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2021
- Done: Senate committeeJanuary 21, 2021
- Done: Passes the SenateJanuary 28, 202147–0
- Done: House committeeFebruary 9, 2021
- Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 16, 202191–1
- Done: To the GovernorMarch 22, 2021
- Done: Signed into lawMarch 22, 2021
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What’s in it
AI summary This bill changes the rules for a program that helps doctors pay back their student loans if they work in rural Iowa. It adds doctors who specialize in pregnancy and women's health to the program and makes it easier for participants to work part-time. It also updates how certain cities are chosen for the program and how the distance between towns is measured.1
Read the official explanation
This bill modifies the requirements for the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment program. The bill adds obstetrics and gynecology as an area of specialization that qualifies for loan repayment under the program. Currently, a person can engage in less than full-time practice under the program if the person applies to the college student aid commission to amend their program agreement and the commission determines that exceptional circumstances exist. The bill eliminates the language relating to exceptional circumstances, thereby allowing the commission and the person to consent to amend the agreement to allow the person to engage in less than full-time practice for an extended period of part-time practice. Under the bill, “less than full-time” means at least percent of a 40-hour workweek. The bill modifies the definition of “service commitment area” to include a city within a designated federal mental health shortage area that provides a $20,000 contribution for deposit in the rural Iowa primary care trust fund for a physician specializing in psychiatry, and to require that the distance between a city with a population of less than 26,000 that is located miles from a city of at least 50,000 be calculated using the shortest driving distance between the cities.
House subcommittee
Named February 1, 2021. On February 3, 2021 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 3-0.
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