Bill Text: NY S06882 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to professional obligations under the physician loan repayment program; provides an option to practice as a physician engaged in private practice in an underserved area.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06882 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S06882-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6882 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 12, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to professional obli- gations under the physician loan repayment program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 12 of section 2807-m of the 2 public health law, as amended by section 6 of part Y of chapter 56 of 3 the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 4 (c) An applicant shall either: (i) agree to practice for three years 5 in an underserved area and each award shall provide up to forty thousand 6 dollars for each of the three years; or (ii) agree to practice as a 7 physician engaged in private practice in an underserved area and each 8 award shall provide up to sixty thousand dollars for each of the three 9 years; and 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirty-first of March next 11 succeeding the date upon which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11110-01-3
