71-5663 Amount of financial assistance; limitation. - Nebraska Statutes

71-5663. Amount of financial assistance; limitation.(1) The amount of financial assistance provided through student loans pursuant to the Rural Health Systems and Professional Incentive Act shall be limited to twenty thousand dollars for each recipient for each academic year and shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars per medical, dental, or doctorate-level mental health student or twenty thousand dollars per master's level mental health or physician assistant student.(2) The amount of financial assistance provided by the state through loan repayments pursuant to the act (a) for physicians, dentists, and psychologists shall be limited to twenty thousand dollars per recipient per year of full-time practice in a designated health profession shortage area and shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars per recipient and (b) for physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and mental health practitioners shall be limited to ten thousand dollars per recipient per year of full-time practice in a designated health profession shortage area and shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars per recipient. SourceLaws 1991, LB 400, § 14; Laws 1994, LB 1223, § 60; Laws 1997, LB 577, § 3; Laws 2000, LB 1115, § 82; Laws 2004, LB 1005, § 105; Laws 2006, LB 962, § 2; Laws 2008, LB797, § 20.Operative Date: July 18, 2008