HB 991: Keep Our Graduates Working Act
GENERAL BILL by Duran
Keep Our Graduates Working Act; Prohibits state authority from suspending or revoking person's professional license, certificate, registration, or permit solely on basis of delinquency or default in payment of his or her student loan; prohibits state authority from suspending or revoking person's professional license, certificate, registration, or permit solely on basis of default in satisfying requirements of his or her work-conditional scholarship; repeals provisions to conform provisions to changes made by act.
Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Last Action: 5/3/2019 House - Died in Appropriations Committee
Bill Text: PDF
Last Action: 5/3/2019 House - Died in Appropriations Committee
Bill Text: PDF
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Bill History
Date Chamber Action 2/20/2019 House • Filed
2/28/2019 House • Referred to Business and Professions Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 100
3/5/2019 House • Introduced -HJ 100
3/22/2019 House • On Committee agenda-- Business and Professions Subcommittee, 03/26/19, 12:00 pm, Webster Hall
3/26/2019 House • Favorable by Business and Professions Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 1 -HJ 520
• Now in Appropriations Committee -HJ 520
5/3/2019 House • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
• Died in Appropriations Committee
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HB 991, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 2/20/2019 at 6:15 PM
Bill Text: PDF Analyses: Business and Professions Subcommittee (Post-Meeting) 3/26/2019 (pdf)
Related Bills (2)
Bill Number Subject Filed By Relationship Last Action and Location Track Bills S 1090 Keep Our Graduates Working Act Gruters Identical Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Innovation, Industry, and Technology 
S 948 Student Loans and Scholarship Obligations of Health Care Practitioners Cruz Compare Last Action: 5/3/2019 S Died in Health Policy
Citations - Statutes (5)
Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help 456.072 Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement. Page 3 (pdf) 456.0721 Practitioners in default on student loan or scholarship obligations; investigation; report. Page 5 (pdf) 456.074 Certain health care practitioners; immediate suspension of license. Page 4 (pdf) 1009.95 Delinquent accounts. Page 5 (pdf) 1009.951 Page 1 (pdf)