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2016 SESSION
SB 535 Virginia Behavioral Health Practitioner Student Loan Repayment Fund and Program; created.
Introduced by: R. Creigh Deeds | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Virginia Behavioral Health Practitioner Student Loan Repayment Fund and Program. Establishes the Virginia Behavioral Health Practitioner Student Loan Repayment Fund and Program to provide student loan repayment grants to eligible behavioral health practitioners who agree to a 24-month employment obligation with a community services board, behavioral health authority, or Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services facility or with an entity that has entered into a contract with a community services board, behavioral health authority or Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services facility to provide behavioral health services. Grants may be up to $10,000 per recipient per year, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services may award up to 250 grants per year. The provisions of this bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/16 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100825D pdf | impact statement
- 02/12/16 Senate: Printed as engrossed 16100825D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/13/16 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100825D
- 01/13/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/21/16 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/21/16 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/10/16 Senate: Reported from Finance with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/16 Senate: Read second time
- 02/12/16 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/12/16 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/12/16 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB535E
- 02/12/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/16 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/16 Senate: Printed as engrossed 16100825D-E
- 02/17/16 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/17/16 House: Read first time
- 02/17/16 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/22/16 House: Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
- 03/08/16 House: Left in Appropriations