BILL NUMBER: AB 2048	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gray

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to amend Section 127940 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health professions development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 127940 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   127940.   (a)    In administering the National
Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program in accordance with
Section 254q-1 of Title 42 of the United States Code and related
federal regulations, the  office    
Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development  shall
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.  The 
    (b)     The  office shall set a
reasonable deadline for when all applications are required to be
received.  All 
    (c)     All  eligible applications
shall be given consideration before any award is granted.