SB 2626 – Mississippi

Status: Enacted
Year Introduced: 2020
Link: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/history/SB/SB2626.xml

Mississippi Qualified Health Center Grant Program; provide for physician grants. An act to amend section 41-99-1, mississippi code of 1972, to revise the definition of “service grant”; to define “primary care physician,” “care grant” and “physician grant”; to amend section 41-99-3, mississippi code of 1972, to expand the purpose of the mississippi qualified health center grant program to include the use of service grants to provide salary supplements to recruit and retain new primary care physicians in order to increase health care access to patients in mississippi; to amend section 41-99-5, mississippi code of 1972, to provide that a physician grant awarded to a mississippi qualified health center shall only be used by that center to provide a one-time salary supplement to a primary care physician being recruited and retained under the program; to provide that a mississippi qualified health center may only receive one physician grant under the program per fiscal year; to provide that a primary care physician in receipt of a physician grant shall work at least three consecutive years at the mississippi qualified health center; to require the mississippi qualified health center to provide an annual report to the department; to require the department to submit those reports annually to the chair and vice chair of the senate public health and welfare committee, to the chair and vice chair of the house public health and human services committee and to the lieutenant governor; to amend section 41-99-7, mississippi code of 1972, to conform; and for related purposes.


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