House File 196 - Enrolled
House File 196
AN ACT
EXPANDING THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL RECRUITMENT PROGRAM.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 Section 1. Section 261.115, subsections 1 and 2, Code 2021,
2 are amended to read as follows:
3 1. A health care professional recruitment program is
4 established to be administered by the college student aid
5 commission for Des Moines university —— osteopathic medical
6 center students who graduate from an academic program at an
7 eligible institution that leads to licensure as a health care
8 professional. The program shall consist of a loan repayment
9 program for health care professionals. The commission shall
10 regularly adjust the service requirement under each aspect
11 of the program to provide, to the extent possible, an equal
12 financial benefit for each period of service required.
13 2. A health care professional shall be eligible for the
14 loan repayment program if the health care professional agrees
15 to practice in an eligible rural community in this state.
16 Des Moines university —— osteopathic medical center Eligible
17 institutions offering academic programs that lead to licensure
18 as a health care professional shall recruit and place health
19 care professionals in rural communities which have agreed to
20 provide additional funds for the recipient’s loan repayment.
21 The contract for the loan repayment shall stipulate the time
22 period the recipient shall practice in an eligible rural
23 community in this state. In addition, the contract shall
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24 stipulate that the recipient repay any funds paid on the
25 recipient’s loan by the commission if the recipient fails to
26 practice in an eligible rural community in this state for the
27 required period of time.
28 Sec. 2. Section 261.115, subsection 5, Code 2021, is amended
29 by adding the following new paragraph:
30 NEW PARAGRAPH. 0a. “Eligible institution” means an
31 institution of higher learning governed by the state board of
32 regents or an accredited private institution as defined in
33 section 261.9.
34 Sec. 3. Section 261.115, subsection 5, paragraph b, Code
35 2021, is amended to read as follows:
1 b. “Health care professional” means a an athletic trainer,
2 occupational therapist, physician, physician assistant,
3 podiatrist, or physical therapist who is licensed, accredited,
4 registered, or certified to perform specified health care
5 services consistent with state law.
______________________________ ______________________________
PAT GRASSLEY JAKE CHAPMAN
Speaker of the House President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 196, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.
______________________________
MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2021 ______________________________
KIM REYNOLDS
Governor


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 261.115
Enrolled: 261.115