SB 1139, as introduced, Lara. Health professionals: undocumented immigrants: scholarships, loans, and loan repayment.
Existing law requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to establish a nonprofit public benefit corporation known as the Health Professions Education Foundation to perform various duties with respect to implementing health professions scholarship and loan programs.
This bill would prohibit specified programs within the foundation, including programs which are funded by the continuously appropriated Health Professions Education Fund, the Medically Underserved Account for Physicians, and the Mental Health Services Fund, from denying an application based on the citizenship status or immigration status of the applicant.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 128371 is added to the Health and Safety
2Code, to read:
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the
4best interest of the State of California to provide persons who are
5not lawfully present in the United States with the state benefits
P2 1provided by the Health Professions Education Foundation
2Programs, and therefore, enacts this section pursuant to subsection
3(d) of Section 1621 of Title 8 of the United States Code.
4(b) A program within the Health Professions Education
5Foundation shall not deny an application based on the citizenship
6status or immigration status of the applicant.
7(c) For any program within the Health Professions Education
8Foundation, when mandatory disclosure of a social security number
9is required, an
applicant shall provide his or her social security
10number, if one has been issued, or an individual tax identification
11number that has been or will be submitted.
12(d) This section shall apply to all of the following:
13(1) Programs supported through the Health Professions
14Education Fund pursuant to Section 128355.
15(2) The Registered Nurse Education Fund created pursuant to
16Section 128400.
17(3) The Mental Health Practitioner Education Fund created
18pursuant to Section 128458.
19(4) The Vocational Nurse Education Fund created pursuant to
20Section 128500.
21(5) The Medically Underserved Account for Physicians created
22pursuant to Section
128555.
23(6) The Steven M. Thompson Medical School Scholarship
24Account created pursuant to 128580.
25(7) Loan forgiveness and scholarship programs created pursuant
26to Section 5820 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
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