Bill Text: TX HB2100 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to eligibility requirements for student loan repayment assistance for certain mental health professionals.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2100 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2100-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility requirements for student loan repayment assistance for certain mental health professionals.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2100 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2100-Comm_Sub.html
By: Price (Senate Sponsor - Schwertner) | H.B. No. 2100 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 24, 2023; | ||
May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 12, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 12, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to eligibility requirements for student loan repayment | ||
assistance for certain mental health professionals. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.603, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.603. ELIGIBILITY. (a) Except as provided by | ||
Subsection (b), to [ |
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under this subchapter, a mental health professional must: | ||
(1) apply to the board; | ||
(2) have completed one, two, three, four, or five | ||
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. | ||
(b) A mental health professional may also establish | ||
eligibility for the repayment assistance under this subchapter by | ||
satisfying the requirements of this subsection. To establish | ||
eligibility under this subsection, the mental health professional | ||
must: | ||
(1) apply to the board; | ||
(2) provide mental health services to: | ||
(A) patients in a state hospital, as defined by | ||
Section 552.0011, Health and Safety Code; or | ||
(B) individuals receiving community-based mental | ||
health services from a local mental health authority that provides | ||
the services in accordance with Subchapter B, Chapter 534, Health | ||
and Safety Code; and | ||
(3) have completed one, two, three, four, or five | ||
consecutive years of practice in this state as described by | ||
Subdivision (2). | ||
(c) In addition to satisfying the requirements under | ||
Subsection (a) or (b), for a licensed physician to be eligible to | ||
receive repayment assistance under this subchapter after the | ||
physician's third consecutive year of practice described under | ||
Subsection (a)(2) or (b)(3), as applicable, the physician must be | ||
certified in psychiatry by: | ||
(1) the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; or | ||
(2) the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and | ||
Psychiatry. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
61.603, Education Code, applies only to a person who first | ||
establishes eligibility for loan repayment assistance under | ||
Subchapter K, Chapter 61, Education Code, as amended by this Act, on | ||
the basis of an application submitted on or after September 1, 2023. | ||
A person who first establishes eligibility on the basis of an | ||
application submitted before September 1, 2023, is governed by the | ||
law in effect on the date the application was submitted, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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