STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         799--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER, STECK, COOK, GRAF, RAIA, McDONOUGH,
          CROUCH, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  CERETTO,  COLTON,
          DUPREY,  MOYA,  PERRY  --  read  once and referred to the Committee on
          Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health  in  accordance  with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the
          nurse loan repayment program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  2807-m  of  the  public health law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5-c to read as follows:
     3    5-c. Registered nurse loan repayment program.  (a)  Beginning  January
     4  first,  two  thousand  seventeen, the commissioner is authorized, within
     5  amounts available pursuant to subdivision five-a  of  this  section,  to
     6  make loan repayment awards:
     7    (i)  to  registered  professional  nurses  or other licensed practical
     8  nurses specialities determined  by  the  commissioner  to  be  in  short
     9  supply,  licensed  to  practice  nursing pursuant to article one hundred
    10  thirty-nine of the education law, who agree to  practice  for  at  least
    11  five  years in an underserved area or nursing home, as determined by the
    12  commissioner.  Such registered professional nurse or licensed  practical
    13  nurse  shall be eligible for a loan repayment award of up to one hundred
    14  fifty thousand dollars over a five year period distributed  as  follows:
    15  fifteen percent of total loan debt not to exceed twenty thousand dollars
    16  for  the  first  year;  fifteen percent of total loan debt not to exceed
    17  twenty-five thousand dollars for the  second  year;  twenty  percent  of
    18  total loan debt not to exceed thirty-five thousand dollars for the third
    19  year;  and  twenty-five percent of total loan debt not to exceed thirty-
    20  five thousand dollars per year for the fourth and fifth years  of  prac-
    21  tice in such area; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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