CHAPTER 48

(SB 55)

Physician tuition reimbursement appropriation.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  make an appropriation to reimburse certain family physicians and certain midlevel practitioners who have complied with the requirements of the physician tuition reimbursement program and the midlevel tuition reimbursement program.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  There is hereby appropriated from the general fund the sum of eighty-two thousand four hundred sixty dollars ($82,460), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the Department of Health for the purposes of reimbursing two family physicians and one midlevel practitioner who have, in the determination of the department, met the requirements of the state physician tuition reimbursement program established pursuant to §  1-16A-71.1 or the midlevel tuition reimbursement program established pursuant to §  1-16A-73.6.

     Section  2.  The secretary of the Department of Health shall approve vouchers and the state auditor shall draw warrants to pay expenditures authorized by this Act.

     Section  3.  Any amounts appropriated in this Act not lawfully expended or obligated by June   30, 2005, shall revert in accordance with §   4-8-21.

     Signed February 25, 2004.

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