(a) The maximum amount of each rural practice loan for medical students shall not exceed sixteen thousand five hundred dollars ($ 16,500) per academic year or those costs that are reasonable and necessary for the student's attendance as determined by the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board.
(b)
(1) The maximum amount of each community match income incentive shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) or as the board otherwise shall determine payable under § 6-81-716.
(2) The Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board shall provide one-half (½) of the community match income incentive, and the qualified rural community shall provide the other one-half (½) of the income incentive.
(3) However, if the board does not have sufficient funds to match the community's portion of the income incentive, nothing precludes a qualified rural community from providing the total income incentive amount.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 6 - Postsecondary Education — Financial Assistance Programs
Subchapter 7 - Rural Medical Practice Student Loans and Scholarships
§ 6-81-702. Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board
§ 6-81-703. Loan applications — Medical students and medical school graduates
§ 6-81-704. Medical students — Investigation after application
§ 6-81-705. Medical students — Purpose of loan
§ 6-81-706. Medical students — Eligibility for initial and renewal loans
§ 6-81-707. Maximum amount of loans
§ 6-81-708. Loan contracts — Rural Medical Practice Loans — Obligations and conditions
§ 6-81-714. Dispute resolution — Determination of breach
§ 6-81-715. Medical school graduates — Community match contract — Eligibility
§ 6-81-716. Medical school graduates — Community match contract — Obligations and conditions
§ 6-81-718. Medical school alternates — Rural medical practice loans
§ 6-81-719. Tracking loan contract compliance
§ 6-81-720. Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Program administrator