Bill Text: TX HB2261 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the physician education loan repayment program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-4)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2261 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2261-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 2261

AN ACT
relating to the physician education loan repayment program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 61.538(a) and (c), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) A physician may receive repayment assistance under this
subchapter in the amount determined by board rule, not to exceed the
following amounts for each year for which the physician establishes
eligibility for the assistance:
(1) for the first year, $30,000 [$25,000];
(2) for the second year, $40,000 [$35,000];
(3) for the third year, $50,000 [$45,000]; and
(4) for the fourth year, $60,000 [$55,000].
(c) The total amount of repayment assistance made under this
subchapter to an individual physician may not exceed $180,000
[$160,000].
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
61.538, Education Code, applies only to a person who first
establishes eligibility for loan repayment assistance under
Subchapter J, Chapter 61, Education Code, as amended by this Act, on
the basis of an application submitted on or after September 1, 2019.
A person who first establishes eligibility on the basis of an
application submitted before September 1, 2019, is governed by the
law in effect on the date the application was submitted, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is
required to implement a provision of this Act only if the
legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If
the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that
purpose, the coordinating board may, but is not required to,
implement a provision of this Act using other appropriations
available for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2261 was passed by the House on April
9, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 17, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2261 on May 23, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 11,
1 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2261 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 20, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays
5.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor