HB186 Alabama 2016 Session

This bill would create the Alabama Physician's Assistants Service Program, to be administered by the Board of Medical Scholarship Awards, and would provide for the funding of the Program by the Education Trust Fund. This bill would also provide a state income tax credit for participants in the Program

To create the Alabama Physician’s Assistants Service Program; to establish and describe the program, to be administered by the Board of Medical Scholarship Awards; to provide that the program will be funded by direct appropriation from the Education Trust Fund; to provide definitions; to outline the procedure for the Board to award loans and require loan repayment through work in medically underserved areas, called areas of critical need; to define areas of critical need; to establish provisions for default or other failure to honor loan-repayment contracts between participants and the Board; to provide a state income-tax credit for participants; and to further provide requirements and powers of the Board for operating the program.