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Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
Filed: 3/26/2014
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3946
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3946 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Family Practice Residency Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Sections 2, 3, and 4.10 and by adding Section 3.09 as |
| 6 | | follows:
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| 7 | | (110 ILCS 935/2) (from Ch. 144, par. 1452)
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| 8 | | Sec. 2.
The purpose of this Act is to establish programs a |
| 9 | | program in the
Illinois Department of Public Health to upgrade |
| 10 | | primary health care
services for all citizens of the State, to |
| 11 | | increase access, and to reduce health care disparities by |
| 12 | | providing grants to family
practice and preventive medicine |
| 13 | | residency programs, scholarships to
medical students, and a |
| 14 | | loan repayment program for physicians and other eligible |
| 15 | | primary care providers who
will agree to practice in areas of |
| 16 | | the State demonstrating the greatest
need for more professional |
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| 1 | | medical care. The programs program shall encourage
family |
| 2 | | practice physicians and other eligible primary care providers |
| 3 | | to locate in areas where health manpower
shortages exist and to |
| 4 | | increase the total number of family practice
physicians and |
| 5 | | other eligible primary care providers in the State.
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| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 86-926.)
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| 7 | | (110 ILCS 935/3) (from Ch. 144, par. 1453)
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| 8 | | Sec. 3.
The terms specified in the following Sections 3.01 |
| 9 | | through 3.08 have the meanings
ascribed to them in those |
| 10 | | Sections unless the context of this Act otherwise requires.
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| 11 | | (Source: P.A. 80-478.)
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| 12 | | (110 ILCS 935/3.09 new) |
| 13 | | Sec. 3.09. Eligible primary care providers. "Eligible |
| 14 | | primary care providers" means health care providers within |
| 15 | | specialties determined to be eligible by the U.S. Health |
| 16 | | Resources and Services Administration for the National Health |
| 17 | | Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.
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| 18 | | (110 ILCS 935/4.10) (from Ch. 144, par. 1454.10)
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| 19 | | Sec. 4.10.
To establish programs a program, and the |
| 20 | | criteria for such programs program,
for the repayment of the |
| 21 | | educational loans of primary care physicians and other eligible |
| 22 | | primary care providers who
agree to serve in Designated |
| 23 | | Shortage Areas for a specified period of time,
no less than 2 |
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| 1 | | years. Payments under this program may be made for the
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| 2 | | principal, interest and related expenses of government and
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| 3 | | commercial loans received by the individual for tuition |
| 4 | | expenses, and all other
reasonable educational expenses |
| 5 | | incurred by the individual. The maximum annual
payment which |
| 6 | | may be made to an individual under this law is $20,000, or
25% |
| 7 | | of the total covered educational indebtedness as
provided in |
| 8 | | this Section, whichever is less. Payments made under this
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| 9 | | provision shall be exempt from Illinois State Income Tax. The |
| 10 | | Department may use tobacco settlement recovery funding or other |
| 11 | | available funding to implement this Section.
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| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
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| 13 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 14 | | becoming law.".
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