ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 1047 	By:	Jolley, Crain and Paddack of the Senate

			and

		Cox of the House

[ health care workforce - Rural Physicians Scholarship Program within the State Department of Health – repealer - codification - 		effective date ]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 697 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  There is hereby created within the State Department of Health the Rural Physicians Scholarship Program.
B.  On July 1, 2010, all powers and duties of the Physician Manpower Training Commission shall be transferred, along with funding allocations, accounts, liabilities, equipment, facilities and other assets, from the Physician Manpower Training Commission to the Rural Physicians Scholarship Program within the State Department of Health.
C.  All references in the Oklahoma Statutes to the Physician Manpower Training Commission shall mean the Rural Physicians Scholarship Program.
D.  When implementing the Rural Physicians Scholarship Program, the State Department of Health shall contract with a nonprofit organization which facilitates and communicates statewide efforts to meet supply and demand needs for Oklahoma’s health care workforce.
E.  The State Board of Health shall promulgate rules as necessary to implement and administer the Rural Physicians Scholarship Program.
SECTION 2.     REPEALER     70 O.S. 2001, Sections 697.2, 697.3 and 697.4, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2010.
Passed the Senate the 10th day of March, 2009.

	
Presiding Officer 	of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the ____ day of __________, 2009.

	
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