STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 799--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 7, 2015 ___________ 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. LBD01655-03-6