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AR Code § 6-81-714 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 7 - Rural Medical Practice Student Loans and Scholarships|§ 6-81-714. Dispute resolution — Determination of breach

 (a) Any applicant for a loan or income incentive issued by the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board, any person who has been granted a loan or has been granted income incentives by the board, or any party to a rural medical practice or community match loan or income incentive may appeal any decision or action by the board relating to the application for a loan or income incentive or relating to a loan or income incentive granted by the board under the dispute resolution procedure established under this subchapter.  (b)  (1) The board, under § 6-81-702(b)(1), shall promulgate rules establishing a procedure that may be used by a loan or income incentive recipient, the board, or a qualified rural community to resolve any dispute arising out of or relating to a rural practice or community match loan or income incentive contract, including the validity or interpretation of a contract term, contract enforcement or defenses, the occurrence of an event of default or breach, loan repayment, the assessment or imposition of contract damages or civil money penalties, or other related disputes.  (2) The rules may provide for alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation, as appropriate.  (3) The dispute resolution procedure established by the board shall be followed before the initiation of any litigation related to a rural practice or community match loan or income incentive contract.    (c) Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit informal disposition by stipulation, settlement, or consent.
AR Code § 6-81-715 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 7 - Rural Medical Practice Student Loans and Scholarships|§ 6-81-715. Medical school graduates — Community match contract — Eligibility

 (a)  (1) The Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board shall administer the Community Match Rural Physician Recruitment Program.  (2)  (A) Interested rural communities may apply to the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board to participate in the program as a qualified rural community.  (B) The Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board shall approve a designated representative or representatives of the qualified rural community to assist the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board in matters relating to any community match contracts entered into by the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board and the qualified rural community.      (b) The Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board, in conjunction with a qualified rural community, may grant community match income incentives to applicants, each incentive being expressly made subject to § 6-81-716, if it finds that:  (1) The applicant is a graduate of:  (A) The University of Arkansas College of Medicine or any accredited medical school in the United States; or  (B) A foreign medical school if the applicant:  (i) Was a resident of Arkansas and citizen of the United States prior to enrollment in the foreign medical school; and  (ii) Has been licensed by the Arkansas State Medical Board;      (2) The applicant satisfies one (1) of the following criteria:  (A) He or she is enrolled in a residency or other training program in an area of primary care medicine; or  (B) No more than two (2) years before the date of the application, he or she completed a residency or other training program in an area of primary care medicine;    (3) The applicant desires to practice medicine in the qualified rural community; and  (4) The designated representative or representatives of the qualified rural community approve the applicant.
AR Code § 6-81-716 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 7 - Rural Medical Practice Student Loans and Scholarships|§ 6-81-716. Medical school graduates — Community match contract — Obligations and conditions

 (a)  (1) The Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board and a qualified rural community shall enter a joint community match contract with the applicant.  (2) The form of the community match contract shall be approved by the Attorney General and shall be signed by the Chair of the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board, the Secretary of the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board, the designated representative or representatives of the qualified rural community, and the applicant.    (b) Each applicant to whom a community match income incentive is granted by the board shall execute a written contract that shall incorporate the following obligations and conditions:  (1)  (A) The recipient of a community match income incentive shall bindingly contract that he or she shall practice primary care medicine full time in the contracting qualified rural community for a period of four (4) years.  (B)  (i) The recipient shall receive the income incentive funds according to a disbursement schedule acceptable to the board, the qualified rural community, and the recipient as set forth in writing in the community match contract.  (ii) For each three-month period of full-time medical practice by the recipient, according to the terms of the community match contract, the board and the qualified rural community shall award one-quarter (¼) of the income incentive for the year of service;      (2)  (A) If any recipient does not begin or ceases the full-time practice of medicine in breach of the community match contract or otherwise breaches the community match contract, the recipient shall pay twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for each uncompleted full year of the four-year contract term, and any civil money penalties that apply.  (B) The board may impose civil money penalties of up to fifty percent (50%) of the principal amount of the income incentive under the terms of the community match contract as a consequence of breach; and    (3) Neither interest nor the obligation to repay the principal sums accrued shall accrue during any one (1) period of time that the recipient involuntarily serves on active duty in the United States Armed Forces or state active duty in the Arkansas National Guard.    (c) Subsection (b) of this section does not prohibit the board from considering and entering into a negotiated settlement with the income incentive recipient involving the terms of repayment of amounts paid under the terms of the community match contract.  (d) Community match contracts may be amended at any time before the income incentive has been paid in full or terms and conditions of the contract are satisfied.  (e) The board shall promulgate rules setting forth additional terms and conditions of community match contracts.
AR Code § 6-81-718 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 7 - Rural Medical Practice Student Loans and Scholarships|§ 6-81-718. Medical school alternates — Rural medical practice loans

 (a)  (1) If an alternate on the waiting list for acceptance to the College of Medicine of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences demonstrates a willingness to enter into a rural medical practice loan contract and meets the requirements of § 6-81-706, the applicant shall be moved to the top of the waiting list upon entering into a rural medical practice loan contract.  (2) The priority on the waiting list for those alternates who enter into a rural medical practice loan contract shall be determined by the date and time such alternate enters into the rural medical practice loan contract.    (b) The college shall meet the requirements set forth at § 6-64-406 for allocation of enrollment positions for medical students among congressional districts before accepting for admission an alternate who has entered into a rural medical practice loan contract with the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board.
AR Code § 6-81-719 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 7 - Rural Medical Practice Student Loans and Scholarships|§ 6-81-719. Tracking loan contract compliance

 The College of Medicine of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences shall track graduates who were recipients of rural medical practice loans for the length of their contractual obligations and shall report to the Legislative Council by October 1 of each even-numbered year regarding the compliance of those graduates with the terms of their contracts.
AR Code § 6-81-720 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 7 - Rural Medical Practice Student Loans and Scholarships|§ 6-81-720. Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Program administrator

 (a) There is established a Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Program administrator.  (b) The administrator shall:  (1) Be employed by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences;  (2) Serve as liaison between loan recipients and rural communities by:  (A) Working with the communities to identify their unique needs, to develop profiles of their ideal candidates, and to prepare for recruitment visits; and  (B) Assisting medical students and residents to identify medically underserved and other rural communities that suit their personal and medical practice needs and to meet their contractual obligations;    (3) Collect and monitor program data, including demographic data of participants and communities, service completion rates, retention rates beyond service completion, satisfaction of obligated physicians and communities, and other information;  (4) Prepare annual program evaluations and present the evaluations to the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board;  (5) Assist with preparation and submission of program reports;  (6) Attend board meetings in a nonvoting capacity; and  (7) Perform other functions assigned by the board.
AR Code § 6-81-721 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 7 - Rural Medical Practice Student Loans and Scholarships|§ 6-81-721. Noninterference with pending litigation

 Nothing in this subchapter is intended to affect pending litigation existing as of April 4, 2007.
AR Code § 6-81-722 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 7 - Rural Medical Practice Student Loans and Scholarships|§ 6-81-722. Sunset clause

 (a) Loan recipients enrolled in the Community Match Rural Physician Recruitment Program on or before the day before April 4, 2007, shall not have their loan contracts impaired by the amendments to the community match program.  (b)  (1) Subject to the availability of funds, the loan for the academic year shall be renewable annually for the number of years required to complete studies leading to the Doctor of Medicine degree or for additional amounts not to exceed sixteen thousand five hundred dollars ($16,500).  (2) However, all subsequent loans shall be granted only upon application by the recipient and a finding by the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board that the applicant:  (A) Has completed successfully the medical studies of the preceding academic year and remains in good standing as an enrolled student in the college;  (B) Is enrolled or participating in a medically underserved and rural practice curriculum; and  (C) Continues to be a resident of Arkansas.      (c) This section expires on August 31, 2014.
AR Code § 6-81-1103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 11 - Financing Postsecondary Out-of-State Education|§ 6-81-1103. Repayment of out-of-state tuition paid by the State of Arkansas

 (a) The Division of Higher Education may provide loans from the Budget Stabilization Trust Fund in excess of the Southern Regional Education Board grant funds to dental students enrolled in professional programs outside the state for whom any part of the out-of-state tuition is paid by the State of Arkansas if the tuition paid to the out-of-state institution exceeds the board-contracted rate.  (b) The amount of the loans in excess of the board grant funds may be the amount of the out-of-state tuition paid by the student, but the amount of the loan may not exceed the amount by which the tuition exceeds the rate established by the board.  (c) The loans shall be made on an annual basis not to exceed the combined total of four (4) years.  (d) The loans may be forgiven at the rate of one (1) year's loan for one (1) year's practice in Arkansas.  (e) Repayment of the loan may be deferred but for no longer than five (5) years, for the following reasons:  (1) Military service;  (2) Specialty training; or  (3) Extraordinary circumstances as determined by the division.    (f) The loans shall be made at a rate of interest determined by the division but not to exceed four percent (4%).
AR Code § 6-81-1104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 11 - Financing Postsecondary Out-of-State Education|§ 6-81-1104. Applicability

 The provisions of § 6-81-1103 shall not apply to Board of Control for Southern Regional Education grant funds.
AR Code § 6-81-1105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 11 - Financing Postsecondary Out-of-State Education|§ 6-81-1105. Veterinary medicine loans — Definitions

 (a) As used in this section:  (1) “Food animal” means bovine, porcine, ovine, camelid, cervid, poultry, and any other species determined by the State Veterinarian;  (2) “Food supply veterinary medicine” means all aspects of veterinary medicine's involvement in food supply systems, from traditional agricultural production to consumption;  (3) “Loan repayment” means a payment made to a recipient upon completion of yearly requirements;  (4) “Participating institution” means the College of Veterinary Medicine of Mississippi State University;  (5) “Practice of food supply veterinary medicine” means a corporate or private veterinary practice with a minimum of thirty percent (30%) of the practice devoted to food animal medicine or mixed animal medicine located in rural areas; and  (6) “Qualified recipient” means a student who:  (A) Is a resident of the State of Arkansas;  (B) Has completed a veterinarian medicine degree program at a participating institution;  (C) Is licensed to practice veterinary medicine in Arkansas; and  (D) Has been certified under § 6-4-106 by the Division of Higher Education as qualified to participate in the loan repayment program authorized by this section and consistent with § 6-4-106.      (b) The division shall institute a loan repayment program to:  (1) Benefit Arkansas residents; and  (2) Assist with the repayment of federal student loans for students that attended a participating institution and completed the requirements for loan repayment.    (c)  (1) The division shall administer the program.  (2)  (A) The division shall adopt rules to implement this section and address the terms and conditions of loan repayments made under this section.  (B) The terms of the loan repayment shall include without limitation:  (i) A requirement to practice food supply veterinary medicine for five (5) consecutive years; and  (ii) Conditions for loan repayment under § 6-81-1106.    (C) The loan repayment amount shall not exceed the amount of tuition assistance provided under the Southern Regional Education Compact program.      (d) The division shall:  (1) Allocate the number of qualified recipients to receive loan repayment based on the amount of funds appropriated;  (2) Determine the necessary procedures for awarding the loan repayments if the number of eligible applicants and recipients exceeds the funding available; and  (3)  (A) Distribute loan repayments according to the allocations made by the division.  (B) The division shall not be obligated to make a loan repayment unless funds are appropriated.
AR Code § 6-81-1106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 11 - Financing Postsecondary Out-of-State Education|§ 6-81-1106. Student loan repayment — Definitions

 (a) As used in this section:  (1) “Food animal” means bovine, porcine, ovine, camelid, cervid, poultry, and any other species determined by the State Veterinarian;  (2) “Food supply veterinary medicine” means all aspects of veterinary medicine's involvement in food supply systems, from traditional agricultural production to consumption; and  (3) “Practice of food supply veterinary medicine” means a corporate or private veterinary practice with a minimum of thirty percent (30%) of the practice devoted to food animal medicine or mixed animal medicine located in rural areas.    (b) The Division of Higher Education shall repay federal student loans yearly for a maximum of five (5) consecutive years if the recipient:  (1) Practices food supply veterinary medicine in Arkansas within ninety (90) days after completion of:  (A) The professional degree program for which the loan was made;  (B) An internship program; or  (C) The professional degree program for which the loan was made and an internship program; and    (2) Maintains the practice of food supply veterinary medicine in Arkansas for a minimum of one (1) year for each year of loan repayment up to five (5) years with all five (5) years consecutive.    (c) A recipient who fails to satisfy the obligation to engage in the practice of food supply veterinary medicine for one (1) year in a five-consecutive-year period shall not receive the loan repayment amount.  (d) The obligation to engage in the practice of food supply veterinary medicine for a five-consecutive-year period shall be postponed during any:  (1) Period of temporary medical disability if the recipient is unable to practice veterinary medicine;  (2) Period of military service under § 6-61-112; or  (3) Other period of postponement agreed to by the division.    (e) The division shall adopt rules to administer this section.
AR Code § 6-81-1203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 12 - Graduate Nursing Practice and Nurse Educator Student Loans and Scholarships|§ 6-81-1203. Graduate nursing students — Eligibility for rural advanced nursing practice and nurse educator loans

 (a) The Graduate Nurse Educator Loan and Scholarship Board may make advanced nursing practice or nurse educator loans to an applicant, each advanced nursing practice or nurse educator loan being expressly made subject to the provisions of § 6-81-1204 if it finds that:  (1) The applicant is a bona fide resident of Arkansas;  (2) The applicant has been accepted for admission to or is enrolled in good standing in an accredited master's or doctoral nursing program or doctor of philosophy in nursing program in the state leading to a graduate degree in nursing;  (3) The applicant is or will be a full-time or a part-time graduate student;  (4) The applicant needs financial assistance to complete his or her nursing studies;  (5) The applicant desires to practice advanced nursing practice in an Arkansas community or teach nursing in an Arkansas school of nursing; and  (6) The applicant is a person of good moral character and one who has the talent and capacity to profit by graduate nursing studies.    (b)  (1) Subject to the availability of funds, an initial rural advanced nursing practice or nurse educator loan for one (1) academic year shall be renewable annually for the number of years required to complete studies leading to a master's in nursing or doctor of philosophy in nursing degree, not to exceed the maximum amount specified in § 6-81-1204.  (2) All subsequent rural advanced nursing practice or nurse educator loans shall be granted only upon application by the recipient and a finding by the board that:  (A) The applicant has completed successfully the advanced nursing studies of the preceding academic year and remains in good standing as an enrolled student in an accredited master's program or a doctor of philosophy in nursing program in the state;  (B) The applicant continues to be a resident of Arkansas; and  (C) The applicant's financial situation continues to warrant financial assistance made under the conditions of this section.
AR Code § 6-81-1209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 12 - Graduate Nursing Practice and Nurse Educator Student Loans and Scholarships|§ 6-81-1209. Effect of subchapter

 Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as establishing minimal requirements for schools of nursing or otherwise affecting the powers and duties of the Arkansas State Board of Nursing regarding schools of nursing.
AR Code § 6-81-1401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 14 - Nursing Student Loan Program|§ 6-81-1401. Nursing Student Loan Program funding

 (a) Cash funds for the Nursing Student Loan Program shall consist of:  (1) Funds appropriated for the Nursing Student Loan Program;  (2) Federal funds;  (3) Gifts;  (4) Grants;  (5) Bequests;  (6) Devises;  (7) Donations;  (8) Moneys received to repay a loan under this subchapter;  (9) Interest and other income accruing to or earned by the funds; and  (10) All moneys provided by law.    (b) The Arkansas State Board of Nursing:  (1) May invest the principal, interest, and income of the funds;  (2) Shall use the funds for making loans for nursing scholarships; and  (3) Shall deposit all loan repayments as a refund to expenditure to be used to make additional loans under this subchapter.
AR Code § 6-81-1402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs|Chapter 81 - Student Loans|Subchapter 14 - Nursing Student Loan Program|§ 6-81-1402. Program established — Administration

 There is established a Nursing Student Loan Program, to be administered by the Arkansas State Board of Nursing in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.