BILL NUMBER: AB 2048	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 16, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gray
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members  Waldron  
Arambula,   Gonzalez,   Waldron,  and Wood)

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to amend Section 127940 of, and to add Section 127945 to,
the Health and Safety Code, relating to health professions 
development, and making an appropriation therefor.  
development. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 applicants that were awarded
funding.
   This bill would  continuously appropriate $1,000,000 from
the General Fund each fiscal year to   authorize 
the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development  to use
state funds  for the purpose of providing  state
  required  matching funds  to 
 for  the National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment
 Program.   Program in any year in which
funding is appropriated by the annual Budget Act for that purpose.
 The bill would prohibit the office from requiring program
applicants or participants to provide matching funds in any year that
the office receives these matching funds, but would require a
program applicant to agree to provide matching funds in any year in
which the office does not receive  state   the
required  matching funds, as specified.
   Vote:  2/3   majority  . Appropriation:
 yes   no  . Fiscal committee: yes.
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 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.
   (b)  The office shall set a reasonable deadline for when all
applications are required to be received.
   (c)  All eligible applications shall be given consideration before
any award is granted.
   (d) The office shall include all federally qualified health
centers located in California in the program's certified eligible
site list.
   (e) The office shall notify all certified eligible sites when the
program opens each application cycle and shall strive, to the extent
possible, to maximize the number of applications received each cycle.

   (f) As part of the initial application process, program applicants
shall agree to provide matching funds in any year that the office
does not receive  state   the required
matching funds pursuant to Section 127945.
   (g) Notwithstanding subdivision (f), the office shall not require
program applicants and participants to provide matching funds in any
year that the office receives  state   the
required  matching funds pursuant to Section 127945.
   (h) The office shall submit an annual report to the Senate and
Assembly Committees on Health that includes all of the following
information:
   (1) The number of applications received during the annual
application cycle.
   (2) The percentage of applicants that were awarded funding under
the program.
   (3) The percentage of applicants that were not awarded funding
under the program.
   (4) The percentage of funding that went to each geographic region
in the state.
   (i) (1) The requirement for submitting a report pursuant to
subdivision (h) is inoperative on January 1, 2021, pursuant to
Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
   (2) A report submitted pursuant to subdivision (h) shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
  SEC. 2.  Section 127945 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   127945.   Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government
Code, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby
continuously appropriated, from the General Fund in the State
Treasury, without regard to fiscal year, to the   The
 Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development 
for purposes of providing state   may use state funds
for purposes of providing required  matching funds for the
National Health Service Corps State Loan Repayment Program pursuant
to Section  127940.   127940 in any year in
which funding is appropriated by the annual Budget Act for that
purpose.