AB 2048, as amended, 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 require the office to include all federally qualified health centers located in California in the program’s certified eligible site list. The bill would require the office to notify all certified eligible sites when the program opens each application cycle and to strive, to the extent possible, to maximize the number of
applications received each cycle. The bill would require the office to submit an annual report, as specified, to the Senate and Assembly Committees on Health that includes, among other things, the number of applications received during the annual application cycle and the percentage of applicantsbegin delete whoend deletebegin insert thatend insert were awarded funding.
This bill would continuously appropriate $1,000,000 from the General Fund each fiscal year to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development for the purpose of providing state matching funds to the National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program. The bill would prohibit the office from requiring program applicants or participants to provide matching funds inbegin delete yearsend deletebegin insert
any yearend insert that the office receives these matchingbegin delete funds.end deletebegin insert funds, but would require a program applicant to agree to provide matching funds in any year in which the office does not receive state matching funds, as specified.end insert
Vote: 2⁄3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. 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:
(a) In administering the National Health Service Corps
4State Loan Repayment Program in accordance with Section 254q-1
5of Title 42 of the United States Code and related federal
6regulations, the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
7Development shall strive, whenever feasible, to equitably distribute
8loan repayment awards between eligible urban and rural program
9sites, after taking into account the availability of health care
10services in the communities to be served and the number of
11individuals to be served in each program site.
12(b) The office shall set a reasonable deadline for when all
13applications are required to be received.
14(c) All eligible applications shall be given consideration before
15any award is granted.
16(d) The office shall include all federally qualified health centers
17located in California in the program’s certified eligible site list.
18(e) The office shall notify all certified eligible sites when the
19program opens each application cycle and shall strive, to the extent
20possible, to maximize the number of applications received each
21cycle.
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(f) As part of the initial application process, program applicants
2shall agree to provide matching funds in any year that the office
3does not receive state matching funds pursuant to
Section 127945.
4(f) The
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5begin insert(g)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertNotwithstanding subdivision (f), theend insert office shall not require
6program applicants and participants to provide matching funds in
7begin delete yearsend deletebegin insert any yearend insert that the office receives state matching funds
8pursuant to Section 127945.
9(g)
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10begin insert(h)end insert The office shall submit an annual report to the Senate and
11Assembly Committees on Health that includes all of the following
12information:
13(1) The number of applications received during the annual
14application cycle.
15(2) The percentage of applicantsbegin delete whoend deletebegin insert thatend insert were awarded funding
16under the program.
17(3) The percentage of applicantsbegin delete whoend deletebegin insert
thatend insert were not awarded
18funding under the program.
19(4) The percentage of funding that went to each geographic
20region in the state.
21(h)
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22begin insert(i)end insert (1) The requirement for submitting a report pursuant to
23subdivisionbegin delete (g)end deletebegin insert (h)end insert is inoperative on January 1, 2021, pursuant to
24Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
25(2) A report submitted pursuant to subdivisionbegin delete (g)end deletebegin insert
(h)end insert shall be
26submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government
27Code.
Section 127945 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
29to read:
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government
31Code, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby
32continuously appropriated, from the General Fund in the State
33Treasury, without regard to fiscal year, to the Office of Statewide
34Health Planning and Development for purposes of providing state
35matching funds for the National Health Service Corps State Loan
36Repayment Program pursuant to Section 127940.
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