HOUSE BILL 2248
By Holsclaw SENATE BILL 2296
By Crowe AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49
and Title 63, relative to incentivizing physicians to
provide health services in underserved areas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-9-706, is amended by deleting subsection (d) and substituting instead the following:
(1) The department of health shall administer the family medicine student loan repayment program or contract with a nonprofit organization for the nonprofit organization to administer some or all portions of the family medicine student loan repayment program; provided, that the nonprofit organization:
(A) Is exempt from federal income taxation as a 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3));
(B) Maintains a principal office in this state; and
(C) Is affiliated with a nonprofit membership organization composed of
family physicians, family medicine residents, and medical students in this state.
(2) The department, in consultation with the Tennessee student assistance corporation, the board of medical examiners, and the board of osteopathic examination,
is authorized to promulgate rules for the management and administration of the family medicine student loan repayment program. The rules must be promulgated according to
the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
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Statutes affected:
Introduced: 49-9-706