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Committee passes bill to create student-loan forgiveness program for behavioral-health providers (no funding attached)
Summary
Senate Bill 554 would create authority to forgive portions of student loans for mental‑health and substance‑use disorder providers who sign contracts to work in behaviorally underserved communities; the committee passed the bill but it contains no state funding in the text presented.
The Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee voted to pass Senate Bill 554, which establishes the structure for a student‑loan forgiveness program aimed at increasing the number of mental‑health and substance‑use disorder providers in underserved Arkansas communities.
Sen. Clark Tucker (District 14) described the bill as creating the infrastructure for incentives but said "there's no funding attached to it, so…
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