Bill Text: TX HB2167 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a plan by the Department of State Health Services to establish and improve tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment programs for health care professionals serving border communities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2167 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2167-Introduced.html
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| By: Guerra | H.B. No. 2167 | |
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| relating to a plan by the Department of State Health Services to | ||
| establish and improve tuition reimbursement and student loan | ||
| repayment programs for health care professionals serving border | ||
| communities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING AND IMPROVING TUITION | ||
| REIMBURSEMENT AND STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH CARE | ||
| PROFESSIONALS IN BORDER COMMUNITIES. (a) The Department of State | ||
| Health Services, in consultation with the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board, shall develop and adopt a plan to establish new | ||
| and improve existing tuition reimbursement programs and programs | ||
| providing assistance with the repayment of student loans for | ||
| eligible health care professionals who are serving in communities | ||
| near and along the international border of this state with the | ||
| United Mexican States. | ||
| (b) The plan developed under this section must: | ||
| (1) require a health care professional to commit to | ||
| full-time employment as a health care professional in the | ||
| communities near and along the international border of this state | ||
| with the United Mexican States for a specified time to be eligible | ||
| for participation in the tuition reimbursement and student loan | ||
| repayment programs; and | ||
| (2) give preference for participation in the programs | ||
| to health care professionals who live in those communities. | ||
| SECTION 2. SUBMISSION TO LEGISLATURE. Not later than | ||
| September 1, 2024, the Department of State Health Services shall | ||
| submit to the legislature the plan developed under Section 1 of this | ||
| Act and the estimated cost to this state of implementing the plan. | ||
| SECTION 3. EXPIRATION. This Act expires January 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect | ||
| immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members | ||
| elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas | ||
| Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for | ||
| immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
