SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 1256
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 731672
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11  Senator Sanderson moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 1, between lines 22 and 23,
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16  insert:  
17         Section 2.  Subsection (1) and paragraph (a) of
18  subsection (7) of section 240.4075, Florida Statutes, are
19  amended to read:
20         240.4075  Nursing Student Loan Forgiveness Program.--
21         (1)  To encourage qualified personnel to seek
22  employment in areas of this state in which critical nursing
23  shortages exist, there is established the Nursing Student Loan
24  Forgiveness Program.  The primary function of the program is
25  to increase employment and retention of registered nurses and
26  licensed practical nurses in nursing homes and hospitals in
27  the state and in state-operated medical and health care
28  facilities, birth centers, federally sponsored community
29  health centers, and teaching hospitals, family practice
30  teaching hospitals, and specialty children's hospitals by
31  making repayments toward loans received by students from
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SENATE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 1256 Amendment No. ___ Barcode 731672 1 federal or state programs or commercial lending institutions 2 for the support of postsecondary study in accredited or 3 approved nursing programs. 4 (7)(a) Funds contained in the Nursing Student Loan 5 Forgiveness Trust Fund which are to be used for loan 6 forgiveness for those nurses employed by hospitals, birth 7 centers, and nursing homes must be matched on a 8 dollar-for-dollar basis by contributions from the employing 9 institutions, except that this provision shall not apply to 10 state-operated medical and health care facilities, county 11 health departments, federally sponsored community health 12 centers, or teaching hospitals as defined in s. 408.07, family 13 practice teaching hospitals as defined in s. 395.805, or 14 specialty children's hospitals as described in s. 409.9119. 15 If, in any given fiscal quarter, there are insufficient funds 16 in the trust fund to grant all eligible applicants' requests, 17 awards must be based on the following priority by employer: 18 county health departments, federally sponsored community 19 health centers, state-operated medical and health care 20 facilities, teaching hospitals as defined in s. 408.07, family 21 practice teaching hospitals as defined in s. 395.805, 22 specialty children's hospitals as described in s. 409.9119, 23 and other hospitals, birthing centers, or nursing homes where 24 the match is required. 25 Section 3. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section 26 240.4076, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 27 240.4076 Nursing scholarship program.-- 28 (4) Credit for repayment of a scholarship shall be as 29 follows: 30 (b) Eligible health care facilities include 31 state-operated medical or health care facilities, county 2 9:03 AM 05/02/01 s1256c1c-31c3t
SENATE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 1256 Amendment No. ___ Barcode 731672 1 health departments, federally sponsored community health 2 centers, or teaching hospitals as defined in s. 408.07, 3 nursing homes, family practice teaching hospitals as defined 4 in s. 395.805, or specialty children's hospitals as described 5 in s. 409.9119. The recipient shall be encouraged to complete 6 the service obligation at a single employment site. If 7 continuous employment at the same site is not feasible, the 8 recipient may apply to the department for a transfer to 9 another approved health care facility. 10 Section 4. All the statutory powers, duties, and 11 functions and the records, personnel, property, and unexpended 12 balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the 13 Nursing Student Loan Forgiveness Program are transferred from 14 the Department of Education to the Department of Health by a 15 type two transfer as defined in section 20.06, Florida 16 Statutes. 17 18 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 19 20 21 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 22 And the title is amended as follows: 23 On page 1, line 10, after the semicolon, 24 25 insert: 26 amending ss. 240.4075, 240.4076, F.S.; 27 including nursing homes, family practice 28 teaching hospitals and specialty children's 29 hospitals as facilities eligible under the 30 program; exempting such hospitals from the 31 fund-matching requirements of the program; 3 9:03 AM 05/02/01 s1256c1c-31c3t
SENATE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 1256 Amendment No. ___ Barcode 731672 1 transferring the program from the Board of 2 Regents to the Department of Health; 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 4 9:03 AM 05/02/01 s1256c1c-31c3t