Bill Text: TX HB2167 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to a plan by the Department of State Health Services to establish and improve tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment programs for health care professionals serving border communities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2167 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2167-Introduced.html
  88R7406 MPF-D
 
  By: Guerra H.B. No. 2167
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a plan by the Department of State Health Services to
  establish and improve tuition reimbursement and student loan
  repayment programs for health care professionals serving border
  communities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING AND IMPROVING TUITION
  REIMBURSEMENT AND STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH CARE
  PROFESSIONALS IN BORDER COMMUNITIES. (a) The Department of State
  Health Services, in consultation with the Texas Higher Education
  Coordinating Board, shall develop and adopt a plan to establish new
  and improve existing tuition reimbursement programs and programs
  providing assistance with the repayment of student loans for
  eligible health care professionals who are serving in communities
  near and along the international border of this state with the
  United Mexican States.
         (b)  The plan developed under this section must:
               (1)  require a health care professional to commit to
  full-time employment as a health care professional in the
  communities near and along the international border of this state
  with the United Mexican States for a specified time to be eligible
  for participation in the tuition reimbursement and student loan
  repayment programs; and
               (2)  give preference for participation in the programs
  to health care professionals who live in those communities.
         SECTION 2.  SUBMISSION TO LEGISLATURE. Not later than
  September 1, 2024, the Department of State Health Services shall
  submit to the legislature the plan developed under Section 1 of this
  Act and the estimated cost to this state of implementing the plan.
         SECTION 3.  EXPIRATION. This Act expires January 1, 2025.
         SECTION 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect
  immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members
  elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas
  Constitution.  If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for
  immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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