H97 - 2015 Appropriations Act, Secs. 12A.10 and 12A.16: Rural Health Loan Repayment Programs and Renaming of Office of Rural Health and Community Care (SL 2015-241)

Overview: Sec. 12A.16 of S.L. 2015-241 renames the Office of Rural Health and Community Care, within the Division of Central Management and Support of the Department of Health and Human Services to the Office of Rural Health. Sec. 12A.10 of S.L. 2015-241 authorizes the Office of Rural Health to use funds appropriated in the act for loan repayment to medical, dental, and psychiatric providers practicing in State hospitals or in a rural or medically underserved community to combine with the Physician or Psychiatric Loan Repayment Programs or the Loan Repayment Initiative at State Facilities in order to achieve efficient and effective management of these programs.

These sections became effective July 1, 2015.