This fiscal note contains 3 pages. DOH states that existing loan repayment staff and processes are in place to provide the services to dentists. Oversight assume this proposal would expand the current medical school loan repayment program to include dentists.
Oversight assume an unknown cost to the state.
Officials from the Department of Public Safety - Missouri State Highway Patrol did not respond to our fiscal impact request. No direct fiscal impact to small businesses would be expected as a result of this proposal. This proposal would rename the Medical School Loan Repayment Program as the Health Professional Student Loan Repayment Program and expands its scope to include dentists. The criteria for areas of defined need would be revised to remove the patient ratios, poverty and age percentages, and distance requirements to hospitals and would be replaced with designation as shortage areas by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or a determination of extraordinary need by the Director of the Department of Health. This legislation is not federally mandated, would not duplicate any other program and would not require additional capital improvements or rental space.