AB 2048, as introduced, Gray. National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program.
Existing law provides that in administering the National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program in accordance with federal law and regulations, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development is required to strive, whenever feasible, to equitably distribute loan repayment awards between eligible urban and rural program sites, after taking into account the availability of health care services in the communities to be served and the number of individuals to be served in each program site.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 127940 of the Health and Safety Code
2 is amended to read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert In administering the National Health Service
4Corps State Loan Repayment Program in accordance with Section
P2 1254q-1 of Title 42 of the United States Code and related federal
2regulations, thebegin delete officeend deletebegin insert end insertbegin insertOffice of Statewide Health Planning and
3Developmentend insert shall strive, whenever
feasible, to equitably distribute
4loan repayment awards between eligible urban and rural program
5sites, after taking into account the availability of health care
6services in the communities to be served and the number of
7individuals to be served in each program site.begin delete Theend delete
8begin insert(b)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insert Theend insert office shall set a reasonable deadline for when all
9applications are required to be received.begin delete Allend delete
10begin insert(c)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insert
Allend insert eligible applications shall be given consideration before
11any award is granted.
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