SPARC Act
Summary
Specialty Physicians Advancing Rural Care Act or the SPARC Act This bill establishes student loan repayment programs to support the provision of specialty medical care in rural areas. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) must carry out such a program for certain specialty medicine physicians who provide care in rural communities with shortages of such physicians. Physicians must agree to a period of obligated service and, for each year of such service, HRSA must pay one-sixth of the principal payment and interest on eligible loans up to a maximum cap of $250,000. Additionally, HRSA may carry out a similar loan repayment program for nonphysician specialty health care providers.
Bill status
in committee
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Introduction
May 2022
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Introduced May 26, 2022
Last action May 26, 2022
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May 26, 2022
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
upper
May 26, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
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