Bill Text: TX SB408 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Nursing Faculty Loan Repayment Assistance Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to s/c on Higher Education by Pres [SB408 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB408-Introduced.html
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| By: Hinojosa | S.B. No. 408 | |
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| relating to the Nursing Faculty Loan Repayment Assistance Program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 61.9822, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.9822. ELIGIBILITY. To be eligible to receive loan | ||
| repayment assistance under this subchapter, a nurse must: | ||
| (1) apply to the board; | ||
| (2) at the time of application for repayment | ||
| assistance have been employed part-time or full-time for at least | ||
| one year as, and be currently employed part-time or full-time as, a | ||
| faculty member of a nursing degree program at an institution of | ||
| higher education or a private or independent institution of higher | ||
| education; and | ||
| (3) comply with any additional requirements adopted by | ||
| board rule. | ||
| SECTION 2. Sections 61.9823(a) and (b), Education Code, are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) On qualifying for loan repayment assistance under this | ||
| subchapter, a nurse may receive repayment assistance for each year | ||
| of part-time or full-time employment as a faculty member of a | ||
| nursing degree program at an institution of higher education or | ||
| private or independent institution of higher education, not to | ||
| exceed five years. | ||
| (b) The board by rule shall determine the maximum amount of | ||
| loan repayment assistance received by a nurse under this subchapter | ||
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| amount of loan repayment assistance received by a nurse for | ||
| part-time employment on the proportion of the number of hours | ||
| worked by the nurse to the number of hours worked by a full-time | ||
| nurse. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective | ||
| date of this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
| shall adopt rules necessary to administer the changes in law made by | ||
| this Act. | ||
| (b) The changes in law made by this Act apply beginning with | ||
| loan repayment assistance awarded under Subchapter JJ, Chapter 61, | ||
| Education Code, for the 2024-2025 academic year. Loan repayment | ||
| assistance awarded under Subchapter JJ, Chapter 61, Education Code, | ||
| for an academic year before the 2024-2025 academic year is governed | ||
| by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this | ||
| Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
