Bill Text: HI HB2411 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-03-07 - Referred to HHS, CPN. [HB2411 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2411-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HEALTH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
The legislature further finds that since that time, while this need remains, there is an increased need for a wider range of health care providers by professions, as well as a pressing need for practitioners in mental health.
The legislature further finds that on September 9, 2023,
the State launched the Hawaii healthcare education loan
repayment program (HELP), a separate program that is alleviating the
educational debt of four hundred ninety-two medical and health care
professionals.
Because of the
expanded scope and purpose of HELP, the purpose of this Act is to rename the
Hawaii health corps program to the Hawaii rural health care
provider loan program to better reflect the purpose of the program.
SECTION 2. Chapter 309H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
amended by amending its title to read as follows:
"[[]CHAPTER
309H[]]
HAWAII [HEALTH CORPS] RURAL
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER LOAN PROGRAM"
SECTION 3. Section 309H-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "loan repayment" or "repayment of loan" to read as follows:
""Loan repayment" or "repayment of loan" means the
payment of up to twenty per cent of a Hawaii [health corps] rural
health care provider loan repayment program participant's health care
training costs including but not limited to tuition not exceeding $35,000 per
year for a maximum of five years of repayment."
SECTION 4. Section 309H-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
1. By amending subsection (a) to read:
"(a)
There is created [within the Hawaii
health corps program,] the Hawaii rural health care provider loan repayment
program to be administered by the University of Hawaii John A. Burns school of
medicine and the University of Hawaii at Manoa school of nursing and dental
hygiene in partnership with a lending financial institution whose operations
are principally conducted in Hawaii. The
Hawaii rural health care provider loan repayment program shall provide loan
repayments to eligible physicians, physician assistants, and nurse
practitioners who make the service commitment under subsection (b). The University of Hawaii John A. Burns school
of medicine and the University of Hawaii at Manoa school of nursing and dental
hygiene shall make loan repayments directly to the financial institution under
subsection (b) to offset the loan repayment for which the Hawaii rural health
care provider loan repayment program recipient would otherwise be liable. Loan repayments shall commence upon the
commencement of loan repayments by the Hawaii rural health care provider loan
repayment program recipient to the lending financial institution. The University of Hawaii John A. Burns school
of medicine and the University of Hawaii at Manoa school of nursing and dental
hygiene shall prioritize loan repayments in accordance with the greatest
specialty shortages for the particular county."
2. By amending subsection
(e) to read:
"(e) In accordance
with chapter 103D, the University of Hawaii John A. Burns school of medicine
and the University of Hawaii at Manoa school of nursing and dental hygiene may
enter into written contracts with collection agencies to collect delinquent
reimbursements of loan repayments. All
payments collected, exclusive of a collection agency's commissions, shall
revert and be credited to the Hawaii [health corps] rural health care
provider loan fund. A collection
agency that enters into a written contract with the University of Hawaii John
A. Burns school of medicine or the University of Hawaii at Manoa school of
nursing and dental hygiene to collect delinquent reimbursements of loan
repayments pursuant to this section may collect a commission from the debtor in
accordance with the terms of, and up to the amounts authorized in, the written
contract."
SECTION 5. Sections 309H-2 and 309H-4, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, are amended by substituting the word "rural health care provider
loan", or similar term, wherever the word "health corps", or
similar term, appears, as the context requires.
SECTION 6. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000.
Report Title:
Hawaii Health Corps Program; Hawaii Rural Health Care Provider Loan Program; Loan Repayment
Description:
Renames the Hawaii Health Corps Program to the Hawaii Rural Health Care Provider Loan Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
