House File 2002 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2002 BY BOSSMAN A BILL FOR An Act relating to the health care professional recruitment 1 program. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5547YH (2) 88 kh/jh

H.F. 2002 Section 1. Section 261.115, subsections 1 and 2, Code 2020, 1 are amended to read as follows: 2 1. A health care professional recruitment program is 3 established to be administered by the college student aid 4 commission for students who graduate from an academic program 5 at Des Moines university —— osteopathic medical center or briar 6 cliff university that leads to licensure as a health care 7 professional . The program shall consist of a loan repayment 8 program for health care professionals. The commission shall 9 regularly adjust the service requirement under each aspect 10 of the program to provide, to the extent possible, an equal 11 financial benefit for each period of service required. 12 2. A health care professional shall be eligible for the 13 loan repayment program if the health care professional agrees 14 to practice in an eligible rural community in this state. Des 15 Moines university —— osteopathic medical center and briar cliff 16 university shall recruit and place health care professionals in 17 rural communities which have agreed to provide additional funds 18 for the recipient’s loan repayment. The contract for the loan 19 repayment shall stipulate the time period the recipient shall 20 practice in an eligible rural community in this state. In 21 addition, the contract shall stipulate that the recipient repay 22 any funds paid on the recipient’s loan by the commission if the 23 recipient fails to practice in an eligible rural community in 24 this state for the required period of time. 25 EXPLANATION 26 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 27 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 28 This bill expands the health care professional recruitment 29 program to include health professionals who graduate from 30 and are recruited by briar cliff university to practice in 31 an eligible rural community in this state that matches state 32 funds for educational loan repayment for the health care 33 professional. 34 Currently, only health care professionals who graduate 35 -1- LSB 5547YH (2) 88 kh/jh 1/ 2

H.F. 2002 from Des Moines university —— osteopathic medical center are 1 eligible for the program. The bill adds that the health care 2 professionals must have graduated from an academic program that 3 leads to licensure. “Health care professional” is defined in 4 statute to mean a physician, physician assistant, podiatrist, 5 or physical therapist. 6 -2- LSB 5547YH (2) 88 kh/jh 2/ 2