Bill Text: CA AB2551 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health workforce planning.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-30 - Read third time. Urgency clause refused adoption. (Ayes 23. Noes 14. Page 5028.) [AB2551 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2551-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2551	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2551, as introduced, Hernandez. Health professions development:
loan repayment.
   Existing law establishes various health professions development
programs, including, but not limited to, the Song-Brown Health Care
Workforce Training Act, the Health Professions Education Foundation
Programs, and the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment
Program.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish a new fee structure for loan
repayment of health professions development programs.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish a new fee structure for loan
repayment of various health professions development programs,
including, but not limited to, all of the following:
   (a) The Song-Brown Health Care Workforce Training Act (Article 1
(commencing with Section 128200) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division
107 of the Health and Safety Code).
   (b) The Health Professions Education Foundation Programs
established pursuant to (Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 128330)
of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code).
   (c) The Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program,
as set forth in Article 5 (commencing with Section 128550) of
Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 128330) of Part 3 of Division 107
of the Health and Safety Code.