71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
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LC 1083
 
                         Senate Bill 287
 
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the
  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Governor John A. Kitzhaber,
  M.D., for Oregon Student Assistance Commission)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Allows Rural Health Services Program to repay loans made
through Primary Care Loan Program administered by United States
Department of Health and Human Services.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
  Relating to Rural Health Services Program student loans;
amending ORS 442.550.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 442.550 is amended to read:
  442.550. As used in ORS 442.550 to 442.570:
  (1) 'Commission' means the Oregon Student Assistance
Commission.
  (2) 'Nurse practitioner' means any person who is licensed under
ORS 678.375.
  (3) 'Physician' means any person licensed to practice medicine
under ORS chapter 677.
  (4) 'Physician assistant' means any such person licensed under
ORS 677.495 and 677.505 to 677.525.
  (5) 'Qualifying loan' means any loan made to a medical student,
physician assistant student or nursing student under:
  (a) Common School Fund loan program under ORS 348.040 to
348.090;
  (b) Programs under Title IV parts B, D and E, of the Higher
Education Act of 1965, as amended; and
  (c) The Health Professions Student Loan, Nursing Student
Loan { + , + }   { - and - }  Health Education Assistance
Loan { +  and Primary Care Loan + } programs administered by the
United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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