| HB1043 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Medical Loan Repayment Program to provide, subject to the availability of funds, educational loan repayment assistance of up to $25,000 per year for five years for up to six Oklahoma licensed primary care physicians per year who agree to establish a practice in a community approved by the Physician Manpower Training Commission. In the Senate, the bill was amended to add qualifications for physicians who participate in the loan program. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Earl Sears (H), Brian Crain (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 06/07/2010 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| HB1543 | Paraphrase: | creates the Nurse Training Assessment Act. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Corey Holland (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB1870 | Paraphrase: | provides an income tax deduction of up to $100,000 per year for qualified employees for income derived from compensation earned working as a physician for a period of three taxable years. The bill defines "qualified employees" as physicians whose primary residences are in qualifying rural areas and who are employed as physicians and whose primary residences for the year before were not in qualifying rural areas. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Jeff Hickman (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 01/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2086 | Paraphrase: | creates the Nursing Improvement Act. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Lucky Lamons (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| HB2110 | Paraphrase: | modifies language related to the Nursing Student Assistance Program. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Charles Ortega (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/25/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0019 | Paraphrase: | creates the "Twenty-first Century Health Education and Research for Oklahoma (HERO) Bonds Act." The purpose of the act is to authorize the issuance of $100 million in obligations, provide for the establishment of a HERO Bonds Trust Fund, create a board of directors to expend interest income from the fund for residency and other training for allopathic and osteopathic physicians and nurses and provide for the annual apportionment of the first $13.4 million derived from the gross production tax into a HERO Bonds Debt Service Fund. Related Bills: SJR 4. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Brian Crain (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB0267 | Paraphrase: | allows funds of the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund to be used for capital expenditures and operating expenses incurred by the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine for educational programs and residency training. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Brian Crain (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 05/13/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0310 | Paraphrase: | makes scholarships established through the Oklahoma Health Care Workers and Educators Assistance Fund subject to available funds. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Susan Paddack (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 07/01/2009 | Emergency: | Yes | |
| Status Date: | 05/11/2009 | Current Status: | Governor Action - Signed | |
| SB0392 | Paraphrase: | provides an income tax exemption for tax years after Dec. 31, 2009, and before Jan. 1, 2015, for taxpayers who are licensed under the Oklahoma Allopathic Medical and Surgical Licensure and Supervision act or the Oklahoma Osteopathic Medicine Act; primary care physicians employed on or after the effective date of the language; and employed in a municipality with a population of less than 20,000 and is outside a metro area with a population of 800,000 or more. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Thomas Ivester (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 01/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1005 | Paraphrase: | creates the Oklahoma Workforce Incentives Act of 2009, granting a $5,000 tax credit from Dec. 31, 2009, to Dec. 31, 2014, for qualified employees, including engineers and scientists, and a $2,500 tax credit for qualified employees, including technologists, professional service providers and welders. It caps the amount of credits to be issued at $3.5 million per fiscal year. It directs the Oklahoma Department of Commerce to identify who is eligible to claim the credit and requires the department to conduct a study to determine the economic benefit resulting from the credit. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Dan Newberry (S) | |||
| Effective Date: | 01/01/2010 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 02/18/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |
| SB1047 | Paraphrase: | creates the Rural Physicians Scholarship Program within the Department of Health. It also transfers all powers, duties, funding allocations, equipment, facilities and other assets and liabilities to the Rural Physicians Scholarship Program within under the department. | ||
| Principal Authors: | Clark Jolley (S), Doug Cox (H) | |||
| Effective Date: | 11/01/2009 | Emergency: | No | |
| Status Date: | 04/08/2010 | Current Status: | Failed Deadline | |