Bill Text: IA SF2096 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 2096 (Prior Session Legislation)

IA State Legislature page for SF2096

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act including emergency medicine as an eligible practice specialty under the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-04 - Subcommittee, Wilhelm, Costello, and Dotzler. S.J. 165. [SF2096 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF2096-Introduced.html

Senate File 2096 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  WILHELM

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act including emergency medicine as an eligible practice
  2    specialty under the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment
  3    program.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 261.113, subsection 3, paragraph d, Code
  1  2 2016, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    d.  Within nine months of graduating from the residency
  1  4 program and receiving a permanent license in accordance with
  1  5 paragraph "b", engage in the full=time practice of medicine
  1  6 and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery specializing
  1  7 in family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, internal medicine,
  1  8 emergency medicine, or general surgery for a period of five
  1  9 consecutive years in the service commitment area specified
  1 10 under subsection 6, unless the loan repayment recipient
  1 11 receives a waiver from the commission to complete the years
  1 12 of practice required under the agreement in another service
  1 13 commitment area pursuant to subsection 6.
  1 14    Sec. 2.  Section 261.113, subsection 8, Code 2016, is amended
  1 15 to read as follows:
  1 16    8.  Part=time practice == agreement amended.  A person who
  1 17 entered into an agreement pursuant to subsection 3 may apply
  1 18 to the commission to amend the agreement to allow the person
  1 19 to engage in less than the full=time practice specified in
  1 20 the agreement and under subsection 3, paragraph "d". If the
  1 21 commission determines exceptional circumstances exist, the
  1 22 commission and the person may consent to amend the agreement
  1 23 under which the person shall engage in less than full=time
  1 24 practice of medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine
  1 25 and surgery specializing in family medicine, pediatrics,
  1 26 psychiatry, internal medicine, emergency medicine, or general
  1 27 surgery in a service commitment area for an extended period
  1 28 of part=time practice determined by the commission to be
  1 29 proportional to the amount of full=time practice remaining
  1 30 under the original agreement.
  1 31                           EXPLANATION
  1 32 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 33 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 34    This bill relates to the requirements for eligibility for
  1 35 participation in the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment
  2  1 program.  The bill adds emergency medicine to the list of
  2  2 specialties in which an individual may engage for a period
  2  3 of five consecutive years in a service commitment area to
  2  4 be eligible for the program.  Under current law, eligible
  2  5 specialties are limited to family medicine, pediatrics,
  2  6 psychiatry, internal medicine, and  general surgery.
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