WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION IntroducedENROLLED House Bill 4768 ByBY DelegatesDELEGATESELLINGTON, Ellington,ONEY, Toney,TATLER,AND StatlerBROOKS and[Passed BrooksMarch [Introduced5, January 16, 2024;

Referredin toeffect theninety Committeedays onfrom Education]passage.] IntrEnr HB 4768 AAN BILLACT to amend and reenact §18C-3-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to increasing the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia;

IntrEnr HB 4768 (8) A waiver of the state resident to nonresident tuition rate differential would offset the significant student debt load incurred by nonresident medical school graduates;

(1) Two Four nonresident medical students from each medical school in the state are selected annually to participate in the program subject to the exception provided in subsection (f) of this section.

(3) For each academic year that a medical student participates in the program, he or she shall commit to render services for one calendar year as a medical doctor or a doctor of osteopathy in this state in a medically underserved area or and in a primary care or specialty 2practice IntrEnr HB 4768 practice or field in which there is a shortage of physicians, as determined by the Division of Health at the time the application for the program is submitted.

(6) Commits to render services for one calendar year as a Medical Doctor or a Doctor of Osteopathy in this state in a medically underserved area or and in a primary care or specialty practice or field in which there is a shortage of physicians for each academic year for which he or she participates in the program;

3Enr Intr HB 4768 (A) Fails to render services as a Medical Doctor or Doctor of Osteopathy in accordance with the sworn statement he or she submitted to the commission.

(1) A method for selecting annually the six 12 new students to be enrolled in the program, with priority consideration to applicants in the earliest academic years of the medical education program;

(2) A method for selecting greater or fewer than two four participants from a single medical school in any year where two four suitable applicants are not available at each school;

(3) A method for the applicant to select the service area or and specialty to which he or she commits to practice medicine;

(4) A method for developing a mutually agreeable modification to the terms of a participant’s service commitment regarding the medically underserved area or and primary care or 4Enr Intr HB 4768 specialty practice or field in which he or she committed to serve under circumstances where the Division of Health determines at the time the participant’s service commitment is scheduled to commence that the area is no longer medically underserved or that primary care or service specialty is no longer experiencing a physician shortage;

(g) There is created continued in the State Treasury a special revenue account to be designated the Nonresident Medical Student Tuition Regularization Fund which is an interest-interest-bearing bearing account that may be invested and retain all earnings.

NOTE:Enr HB 4768 The Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of the Senate hereby certify that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.

The............................................................... purpose of this bill is to increase the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia from two to four program participants per medical school.

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Clerk of the Senate Originated in the House of Delegates.

In effect ninety days from passage.

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