SENATE AMENDMENT
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11 Senator Sanderson moved the following amendment to amendment
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 144. Subsection (1) and paragraph (a) of
19 subsection (7) of section 240.4075, Florida Statutes, are
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21 240.4075 Nursing Student Loan Forgiveness Program.--
22 (1) To encourage qualified personnel to seek
23 employment in areas of this state in which critical nursing
24 shortages exist, there is established the Nursing Student Loan
25 Forgiveness Program. The primary function of the program is
26 to increase employment and retention of registered nurses and
27 licensed practical nurses in nursing homes and hospitals in
28 the state and in state-operated medical and health care
29 facilities, birth centers, federally sponsored community
30 health centers, and teaching hospitals, family practice
31 teaching hospitals, and specialty children's hospitals by
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1 making repayments toward loans received by students from
2 federal or state programs or commercial lending institutions
3 for the support of postsecondary study in accredited or
4 approved nursing programs.
5 (7)(a) Funds contained in the Nursing Student Loan
6 Forgiveness Trust Fund which are to be used for loan
7 forgiveness for those nurses employed by hospitals, birth
8 centers, and nursing homes must be matched on a
9 dollar-for-dollar basis by contributions from the employing
10 institutions, except that this provision shall not apply to
11 state-operated medical and health care facilities, county
12 health departments, federally sponsored community health
13 centers, or teaching hospitals as defined in s. 408.07, family
14 practice teaching hospitals as defined in s. 395.805, or
15 specialty children's hospitals as described in s. 409.9119.
16 If, in any given fiscal quarter, there are insufficient funds
17 in the trust fund to grant all eligible applicants' requests,
18 awards must be based on the following priority by employer:
19 county health departments, federally sponsored community
20 health centers, state-operated medical and health care
21 facilities, teaching hospitals as defined in s. 408.07, family
22 practice teaching hospitals as defined in s. 395.805,
23 specialty children's hospitals as described in s. 409.9119,
24 and other hospitals, birthing centers, or nursing homes where
25 the match is required.
26 Section 145. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of
27 section 240.4076, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
28 240.4076 Nursing scholarship program.--
29 (4) Credit for repayment of a scholarship shall be as
30 follows:
31 (b) Eligible health care facilities include
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1 state-operated medical or health care facilities, county
2 health departments, federally sponsored community health
3 centers, or teaching hospitals as defined in s. 408.07,
4 nursing homes, family practice teaching hospitals as defined
5 in s. 395.805, or specialty children's hospitals as described
6 in s. 409.9119. The recipient shall be encouraged to complete
7 the service obligation at a single employment site. If
8 continuous employment at the same site is not feasible, the
9 recipient may apply to the department for a transfer to
10 another approved health care facility.
11 Section 146. All the statutory powers, duties, and
12 functions and the records, personnel, property, and unexpended
13 balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the
14 Nursing Student Loan Forgiveness Program are transferred from
15 the Department of Education to the Department of Health by a
16 type two transfer as defined in section 20.06, Florida
17 Statutes.
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21 And the title is amended as follows:
22 On page 300, line 20, after the semicolon
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25 amending ss. 240.4075, 240.4076, F.S.;
26 including nursing homes, family practice
27 teaching hospitals and specialty children's
28 hospitals as facilities eligible under the
29 program; exempting such hospitals from the
30 fund-matching requirements of the program;
31 transferring the program from the Board of
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