Bill Text: TX HB1488 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility requirements for repayment assistance for certain mental health professional education loans.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-09 - Referred to Public Health [HB1488 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1488-Introduced.html
| 85R6292 SRS-D | ||
| By: Price | H.B. No. 1488 | |
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| relating to eligibility requirements for repayment assistance for | ||
| certain mental health professional education loans. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 61.603(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) To be eligible to receive repayment assistance under | ||
| this subchapter, a mental health professional must: | ||
| (1) apply to the board; | ||
| (2) have completed [ |
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| consecutive years of practice in a mental health professional | ||
| shortage area designated by the Department of State Health | ||
| Services; and | ||
| (3) provide mental health services in this state to: | ||
| (A) recipients under the medical assistance | ||
| program authorized by Chapter 32, Human Resources Code; | ||
| (B) enrollees under the child health plan program | ||
| authorized by Chapter 62, Health and Safety Code; or | ||
| (C) persons committed to a secure correctional | ||
| facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Juvenile | ||
| Justice Department or persons confined in a secure correctional | ||
| facility operated by or under contract with any division of the | ||
| Texas Department of Criminal Justice. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
| 61.603, Education Code, applies only to eligibility for loan | ||
| repayment assistance under Subchapter K, Chapter 61, Education | ||
| Code, on the basis of an application submitted on or after September | ||
| 1, 2017. Eligibility on the basis of an application submitted | ||
| before September 1, 2017, is covered by the law in effect at the | ||
| time the application was submitted, and the former law is continued | ||
| in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
