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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="15-206" future_version_removed="true" title_number="15" title_name="Physician Assistants" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Physician Assistant Advisory Committee; Board; Commission">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board shall set reasonable fees for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The issuance and renewal of licenses; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The other services rendered by the Board in connection with physician assistants, including the cost of providing a rehabilitation program for physician assistants under § 14–401.1(g) of this article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>In addition to the fee set by the Board under this title for the renewal of a license, the Board shall assess a separate $15 fee for a renewal of the license.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The Board shall pay the fee collected under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph to the Physician Assistant Preceptorship Tax Credit Fund established under § 10–752 of the Tax – General Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (a)(2)(ii) of this section, the Board shall pay all fees collected under this title to the Comptroller of the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In each fiscal year, if the Department does not implement a permanent funding structure under § 24–1702(b)(1) of the Health – General Article and the Governor does not include in the State budget at least $400,000 for the operation of the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Physicians and Physician Assistants under Title 24, Subtitle 17 of the Health – General Article, as administered by the Department, the Comptroller shall distribute:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$400,000 of the fees received from the Board to the Department to be used to make grants under the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Physicians and Physician Assistants under Title 24, Subtitle 17 of the Health – General Article to physicians and physician assistants engaged in primary care or to medical residents specializing in primary care who agree to practice for at least 2 years as primary care physicians in a geographic area of the State that has been designated by the Secretary as being medically underserved; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The balance of the fees to the Board of Physicians Fund.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the Governor includes in the State budget at least the amount specified in paragraph (1) of this subsection for the operation of the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Physicians and Physician Assistants under Title 24, Subtitle 17 of the Health – General Article, as administered by the Department, the Comptroller shall distribute the fees to the Board of Physicians Fund.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
