Bill Text: IA HF2110 | 2023-2024 | 90th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act allowing radiologists to participate in the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-25 - Subcommittee recommends passage. Vote Total: 3-0. [HF2110 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2023-HF2110-Introduced.html
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BY
BRADLEY
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
allowing
radiologists
to
participate
in
the
rural
Iowa
1
primary
care
loan
repayment
program.
2
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
256.221,
subsection
3,
paragraph
d,
Code
1
2024,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
d.
Within
nine
months
of
graduating
from
the
residency
3
program
and
receiving
a
permanent
license
in
accordance
with
4
paragraph
“b”
,
engage
in
the
full-time
or
part-time
practice
5
of
medicine
and
surgery
or
osteopathic
medicine
and
surgery
6
specializing
in
family
medicine,
pediatrics,
psychiatry,
7
internal
medicine,
obstetrics
and
gynecology,
neurology,
8
radiology,
or
general
surgery
for
a
period
of
five
consecutive
9
years
in
the
service
commitment
area
specified
under
subsection
10
8
,
unless
the
loan
repayment
recipient
receives
a
waiver
from
11
the
commission
to
complete
the
years
of
practice
required
under
12
the
agreement
in
another
service
commitment
area
pursuant
to
13
subsection
8
.
14
EXPLANATION
15
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
16
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
17
This
bill
allows
radiologists
to
participate
in
the
18
rural
Iowa
primary
care
loan
repayment
program,
which
is
19
administered
by
the
college
student
aid
commission.
The
20
program
provides
loan
repayments
for
medical
students
who
21
agree
to
practice
as
physicians
in
service
commitment
areas
22
for
five
consecutive
years
after
graduating
from
a
residency
23
program
and
receiving
a
permanent
license
to
practice
medicine
24
and
surgery
or
osteopathic
medicine
and
surgery
in
this
25
state.
For
purposes
of
the
program,
a
service
commitment
26
area
is
a
city
that
provides
a
$20,000
contribution
to
the
27
rural
Iowa
primary
care
trust
fund
for
each
physician
in
the
28
community
who
is
participating
in
the
program,
and
the
city
29
is
either
within
a
federal
mental
health
shortage
area,
if
30
the
physician
participating
in
the
program
specializes
in
31
psychiatry,
or
the
city
has
a
population
of
less
than
26,000
32
and
is
located
more
than
20
miles
from
a
city
with
a
population
33
of
50,000.
Current
law
provides
that
persons
who
engage
in
34
the
full-time
or
part-time
practice
of
medicine
and
surgery
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or
osteopathic
medicine
and
surgery
specializing
in
family
1
medicine,
pediatrics,
psychiatry,
internal
medicine,
obstetrics
2
and
gynecology,
neurology,
or
general
surgery
are
allowed
to
3
participate
in
the
program,
if
certain
other
criteria
are
4
satisfied.
The
bill
adds
persons
engaged
in
the
full-time
5
or
part-time
practice
of
medicine
and
surgery
or
osteopathic
6
medicine
and
surgery
who
specialize
in
radiology
to
the
list
of
7
allowable
participants
in
the
program.
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