This bill makes certain full-time health care practitioners eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Specifically, the bill extends program eligibility to health care practitioners who work at a nonprofit or public hospital or facility but are prohibited under state law from being directly employed by the hospital or facility.
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include certain employment 
   as a health care practitioner as eligible for public service loan 
                  forgiveness, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PUBLIC SERVICE LOAN 
              FORGIVENESS.

    Section 455(m)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1087e(m)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Full-time job as health care practitioner.--
                For purposes of subparagraph (B)(i), the term `full-
                time professionals engaged in health care practitioner 
                occupations' includes an individual who--
                            ``(i) has a full-time job as a health care 
                        practitioner;
                            ``(ii) provides medical services in such 
                        full-time job at a nonprofit hospital or public 
                        hospital or other nonprofit or public health 
                        care facility; and
                            ``(iii) is prohibited by State law from 
                        being employed directly by such hospital or 
                        other health care facility.''.
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To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include certain employment as a health care practitioner as eligible for public service loan forgiveness, and for other purposes.
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include certain employment as a health care practitioner as eligible for public service loan forgiveness, and for other purposes.
Official Titles - House of Representatives
Official Title as Introduced
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include certain employment as a health care practitioner as eligible for public service loan forgiveness, and for other purposes.
Rep. Harder, Josh