Session of 1999
SENATE BILL No. 266
By Committee on Ways and Means
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9 AN ACT concerning the university of Kansas school of medicine; relating
10 to the medical student loan act; concerning satisfaction of loan recip-
11 ients service obligation; amending K.S.A. 76-384 and repealing the
12 existing section.
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14 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
15 Section 1. K.S.A. 76-384 is hereby amended to read as follows: 76-
16 384. (a) Upon the selection of a service commitment area for the purposes
17 of satisfying a service obligation under a medical student loan agreement
18 entered into under this act, the person so selecting shall inform the uni-
19 versity of Kansas school of medicine of the service commitment area
20 selected.
21 (b) A person serving in a service commitment area pursuant to any
22 agreement under this act may serve all or part of any commitment in the
23 service commitment area initially selected by such person. If such person
24 moves from one service commitment area to another service commitment
25 area, such person shall notify the university of Kansas school of medicine
26 of such person's change of service commitment area. Service in any such
27 service commitment area shall be deemed to be continuous for the pur-
28 pose of satisfying any agreement entered into under this act.
29 (c) A person receiving a medical student loan under this act, may
30 satisfy the obligation to engage in the full-time practice of medicine and
31 surgery in a service commitment area if the person serves as a full-time
32 faculty member of the university of Kansas school of medicine in general
33 internal medicine, general pediatrics, emergency medicine, family medi-
34 cine or family practice and serves two years for each one year of such
35 obligation, or the equivalent thereof on a two-for-one basis, except that,
36 at the time any person commences satisfying such service obligation as a
37 full-time faculty member pursuant to this subsection, the number of per-
38 sons satisfying service commitments or service obligations, pursuant to
39 agreements under K.S.A. 76-374 and amendments thereto or the medical
40 student loan act, as full-time faculty members pursuant to this subsection
41 shall not exceed the number equal to 25% of the total number of full-
42 time faculty members of the university of Kansas school of medicine in
43 general internal medicine, general pediatrics, emergency medicine, family
44 medicine or family practice.
45 (d) A person may satisfy the obligation to engage in the full-time
46 practice of medicine and surgery in a service commitment area by per-
47 forming at least 100 hours per month of on-site primary care as defined
48 in K.S.A. 76-374 and amendments thereto at a medical facility operated
49 by a local health department or nonprofit organization in this state serving
50 medically indigent persons. As used in this subsection, "medically indi-
51 gent" means a person: (1) Who is unable to secure health care because
52 of inability to pay for all or a part of the costs thereof due to inadequate
53 personal resources, being uninsured, being underinsured, being ineligible
54 for governmental health benefits; or (2) who is eligible for governmental
55 benefits but is unable to obtain medical services.
56 Sec. 2. K.S.A. 76-384 is hereby repealed.
57 Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
58 publication in the statute book.