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JFAC adds funding for rural nursing loan-repayment after earlier motion failed in one chamber
Summary
After debate and a failed transfer motion, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved a one-time $375,000 payment and an ongoing $625,000 appropriation from the rural nursing loan repayment fund to support the program’s second-year awards.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee voted March 12 to provide supplemental and ongoing funding to resume payments under the rural nursing loan-repayment program established in House Bill 213 (2023).
Committee members said the program was properly established in statute and that a procedural lapse left year-two awards unfunded. Representative Furness said nurses “came to us and say, hey, I didn't get my loan repayment,” and that the omission appeared to be inadvertent. The committee considered a set of actions: a transfer of remaining cash into the dedicated fund, a one-time supplemental…
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