65-7405. Primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee review committee; membership; duties.
65-7405
65-7405. Primary care safety net clinic loanguarantee review committee; membership; duties.(a) There is hereby established the primary care safety netclinic loan guarantee review committee within the department of health andenvironment. The committee shall consist of five members.
(b) The members of the primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee reviewcommittee shall be appointed by the secretary in accordance with the following:(1) Two members shall be representatives of the department of health andenvironment selected by the secretary, (2) one member shall be appointed by thesecretary who is nominated by the Kansas developmentfinance authority, (3) one member shall be appointed by the secretarywho is nominated by the Kansas health policy authority, and(4) one member shall be appointed by the secretarywho is nominated by the Kansas association for the medically underserved.
(c) The secretary may appoint persons as members of the primary care safetynet clinic loan guarantee review committee who are officers or employees ofthe agencies or organizations they are nominated by or that they are appointedto represent. Not more than three members of the committee shall be affiliatedwith the same political party. Members shall serve at the pleasure of thesecretary.
(d) The primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee review committee shallreview all proposals for loan financing guarantees under this act and shallapprove those proposals that the committee deems to represent reasonable risksand to have a sufficient likelihood of repayment. The committee shall advisethe secretary on matters regarding the administration of this act whenrequested by the secretary and may provide such advice when deemed appropriateby the committee.
(e) The secretary or the secretary's designee shall serve as a nonvotingchairperson of the primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee reviewcommittee, and the committee shall annually elect a vice-chairperson fromamong its members. The committee shall meet upon call of the chairperson orupon call of any two of its members. Three voting members shall constitute aquorum for the transaction of business.
(f) Members of the primary care safety net clinic loan guarantee reviewcommittee attending meetings of the committee, or attending a subcommitteemeeting thereof authorized by the committee, shall be paid compensation,subsistence allowances, mileage and other expenses as provided in K.S.A.75-3223 and amendments thereto.
History: L. 2007, ch. 177, § 9; May 17.