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Physician's Assistants Service Program, created, administered by the Board of Medical Scholarship Awards, funding of program, tax credits for participation
Description
This bill would create the Alabama Physician's Assistants Service Program, to be administered by the Board of Medical Scholarship Awards, and would provide for the funding of the Program by the Education Trust Fund. This bill would also provide a state income tax credit for participants in the Program
To create the Alabama Physician’s Assistants Service Program; to establish and describe the program, to be administered by the Board of Medical Scholarship Awards; to provide that the program will be funded by direct appropriation from the Education Trust Fund; to provide definitions; to outline the procedure for the Board to award loans and require loan repayment through work in medically underserved areas, called areas of critical need; to define
areas of critical need; to establish provisions for default or other failure to honor loan-repayment contracts between participants and the Board; to provide a state income-tax credit for participants; and to further provide requirements and powers of the Board for operating the program.
Subjects
Health
Bill Actions
Action Date
Chamber
Action
April 28, 2016
H
Indefinitely Postponed
April 13, 2016
H
Ways and Means Education first Amendment Offered
April 13, 2016
H
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
February 11, 2016
H
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means Education