The purpose of the Nursing Student Loan for Service Act is to meet the emergency currently existing resulting from the shortage of nurses in the underserved areas of the state by increasing the number of practitioners in rural areas through a program of loans for nursing students. The program will require as a condition of each loan that the student declare intent prior to the granting of the loan that the nurse will practice nursing within one of the areas of the state designated as an underserved area by the commission [department].
History: 1978 Comp., § 21-22B-2, enacted by Laws 1987, ch. 299, § 2; 1991, ch. 262, § 48; 1995, ch. 144, § 9; 2005, ch. 321, § 5.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
For designation of the commission on higher education as the higher education department, see 9-25-4.1 NMSA 1978.
The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, changed "health professional advisory committee" to "commission".
The 1995 amendment, effective July 1, 1995, substituted "health profession advisory committee" for "medical shortage area committee" at the end of the section.
The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, inserted "for Service" in the first sentence and substituted "the medical shortage area committee" for "a nursing advisory committee established and organized by the commission" at the end of the section.
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