Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF0640

Relating to health; modifying the wage payment requirement for hospital or
clinic employment of secondary and post-secondary summer health care interns;
authorizing the use of rural hospital planning and transition grants to cover
expenses associated with addressing the health care work force shortage;
extending the expiration date of the rural hospital capital improvement grant
program; requiring the commissioner of health to establish loan forgiveness
programs for health care technicians and nurses agreeing to practice in rural
hospitals, creating a rural health care technician education account and a rural
hospital nurse loan forgiveness account in the general fund for programs funding
purposes, specifying programs eligibility requirements and loans forgiveness
conditions, imposing a penalty for nonfulfillment of the service commitment and
providing for waiver of the obligations under certain conditions; eliminating
the expiration date for medical assistance (MA) coverage of telemedicine
consultations; appropriating money to the commissioner for the summer health
care intern, rural hospital planning and transition, capital improvement and
financial assistance grant and health care technician and nurse loan forgiveness
programs (mk)