Senate Bill No. 2341 Summary

• Removes the limit of three veterinarians per year and allows the state health council to select additional veterinarians based on available funding for the loan repayment program.

• Increases maximum loan repayment from eighty thousand dollars total, with payments up to fifteen thousand dollars for years one and two, and up to twenty-five thousand dollars for years three and four of service.

• Requires selected applicants to contract for full-time veterinary medicine services for two, three, or four years in communities needing veterinarians and to provide food animal veterinary medicine services.

• Establishes that all loan repayment payments must be made directly to student loan issuers and that individuals cannot receive more than eighty thousand dollars total under the program.

• Provides a continuing appropriation for gifts, grants, and donations received to expand the program, with entities funding specific locations required to commit full funding for four years.