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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7942
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 4, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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.
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