Do you support this bill?

Assembly Bill A4695

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to transferring any unspent funds from the regents health care professional opportunity scholarship program to the regents physician loan forgiveness program

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

2023-A4695 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §605, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3721
2011-2012: A2690
2013-2014: A3967
2015-2016: A2526
2017-2018: A1572
2019-2020: A2874
2021-2022: A1799
2025-2026: A7476

2023-A4695 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Transfers any unspent funds from the regents health care professional opportunity scholarship program to the regents physician loan forgiveness program; provides direction to distribute these funds to meet the same purposes as originally intended.

2023-A4695 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4695
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 22, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to funding  of  physician
   loan forgiveness programs
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 9 of  section  605  of  the  education  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
   G.  USE  OF  EXCESS  FUNDS  FROM  THE REGENTS HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL
 OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS. ANY FUNDS APPLIED  TOWARD  THIS  PROGRAM  FROM
 UNUSED  ALLOCATIONS DIRECTED TOWARD THE REGENTS HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL
 OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS, PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TEN OF  THIS  SECTION,
 SHALL  BE  DISTRIBUTED  IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGENTS RULES THAT SHALL GIVE
 PRIORITY TO PHYSICIANS WHO ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED AND/OR MEMBERS
 OF AN UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY GROUP. AWARDEES  SHALL  PROVIDE  SERVICE
 PAYBACK  IN  AN  AREA DESIGNATED AS HAVING A SHORTAGE OF PHYSICIANS, BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO, PRIMARY CARE SERVICES.
   § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 10 of  section  605  of  the
 education law, as added by chapter 31 of the laws of 1985, is amended to
 read as follows:
   Regents  health  care  professional  opportunity scholarships shall be
 awarded annually to students who are beginning or engaged in an approved
 program in medicine or dentistry and who are economically  disadvantaged
 and/or members of an underrepresented minority group, provided, however,
 that  to  the  extent  that regents health care professional opportunity
 scholarships are not awarded, such [scholarships  shall  be  awarded  as
 regents  professional  opportunity scholarships] REMAINING FUNDING SHALL
 BE APPLIED TO THE REGENTS  PHYSICIAN  LOAN  FORGIVENESS  PROGRAM.  These
 scholarships  shall  be  classified  and  allocated  in  accordance with
 regents rules.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09473-01-3
 A. 4695                             2

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.