Assembly Bill A2561

                             
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                                   2561
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. McDONALD, STECK, BUTTENSCHON, STIRPE, BURDICK,
   GLICK, LUNSFORD, JACOBSON, WOERNER, McDONOUGH, JENSEN, SMULLEN, GALLA-
   HAN, SIMPSON, SIMON, DAVILA, SIMONE, ANGELINO, LUPARDO  --  read  once
   and referred 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:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 12 of section  2807-m  of  the
 public  health  law,  as amended by section 6 of part Y of chapter 56 of
 the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (c) An applicant shall EITHER: (I) agree to practice for  three  years
 in an underserved area and each award shall provide up to forty thousand
 dollars  for  each  of  the  three years; OR (II) AGREE TO PRACTICE AS A
 PHYSICIAN ENGAGED IN PRIVATE PRACTICE IN AN UNDERSERVED  AREA  AND  EACH
 AWARD  SHALL  PROVIDE UP TO SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH OF THE THREE
 YEARS; and
   § 2. This act shall take effect on  the  thirty-first  of  March  next
 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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