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Panel backs expanding nursing loan-repayment eligibility and extending Board of Nursing oversight under House Bill 19
Summary
House Bill 19 would expand eligibility for Maryland's nurse loan-repayment program to some practitioners working for for-profit contractors in underserved settings, retain nursing support staff eligibility, and extend MDH oversight of the Board of Nursing's infrastructure for five more years, department officials told committee members.
House Bill 19 would expand the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program (MLARP) and extend the Board of Nursing's sunset and the Secretary of Health's authority over certain board infrastructure operations, the Maryland Department of Health told the Health and Government Operations Committee.
Deputy Secretary Naresh Kalyanaraman said the bill would expand eligible fields of employment to include practitioners working in for‑profit settings that contract with underserviced sites — for example where corrections or other facilities rely on contracted providers — and could permit inclusion of certain specialty practitioners, such as nurse anesthetists, "if funding is available." The department initially proposed removing nursing support staff but reported it received stakeholder requests to retain that eligibility and said it submitted an amendment to…
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