SB434: Creates a program to award grants to address shortages of providers of health care. (BDR 40-1107)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to health care; creating the Statewide Health Care Access and Recruitment Program Account; providing for certain transfers of money into and out of the Account; requiring a biennial assessment of the health care needs of this State; establishing the Statewide Health Care Access and Recruitment Grant Program to award grants of money to fund certain projects to address shortages of providers of health care or clinical services or expertise identified by the assessment; requiring a grantee to enter into a funding agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services; providing for certain oversight of projects funded through the Program; authorizing the Department to take certain actions in response to certain changes to a funded project or if a grantee fails to comply with a funding agreement or applicable law; reducing the amount of certain transfers into the Account to Stabilize the Operation of State Government; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.