Delaware House Bill 48

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-10)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2021 - 25% progression
Action: 2021-01-13 - Amendment HA 1 to HB 48 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
Hearing: Jan 19 @ 3:00 pm Health & Human Development
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act establishes a Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program for new primary care providers to be administered by the Delaware Health Care Commission. Under the loan repayment program, the Health Care Commission may award education loan repayment grants to new primary care providers of up to $50,000 per year for a maximum of 4 years. Priority consideration may be given to DIMER-participating students and participants in Delaware based residency programs. Sites eligible to apply for grants on behalf of their new primary care providers must be located in underserved areas or areas of need and must accept Medicare and Medicaid participants. Grants to hospital sites must be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis by the applicant hospital and the disbursement of grants from the program is contingent upon an initial, one-time contribution to the Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program, in an amount Fiscal Year 21 appropriation of State funds up to a maximum of $1 million, from Delaware health insurers. This Act also provides that the Delaware Healthcare Commission may award Health Care Provider Repayment grants on a prorated annual basis.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Health Care Commission.

Rep. David Bentz [D]	Sen. Nicole Poore [D]	Sen. Sarah McBride [D]	Rep. Bryan Shupe [R]
Rep. William Bush [D]	Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown [D]	Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. David Lawson [R]
Sen. Ernesto Lopez [R]	Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Sen. Brian Pettyjohn [R]	Sen. Marie Pinkney [D]
Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]
Rep. Gerald Brady [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]	Rep. Krista Griffith [D]
Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Kendra Johnson [D]	Rep. Larry Lambert [D]	Rep. Valerie Longhurst [D]
Rep. Sean Lynn [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]	Rep. Charles Postles [R]	Rep. Michael Ramone [R]
Rep. Daniel Short [R]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]	Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton [D]	Rep. Lyndon Yearick [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-13		Amendment HA 1 to HB 48 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2021-01-07		Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48246
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48246&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB48