4. PreceptorTax
Incentive
Program (PTIP):
2017 HB 301
Income tax credit for licensed physicians, advanced
practice registered nurses and physician assistants
GA has a growing number of students but fewer
community preceptors
Competition of preceptors from out-of-state and off-
shore training programs that pay for preceptorship
Done as an effort to increase benefit of the PTIP
program already in place that offers up to $10,000 tax
deduction of licensed physicians
5. PreceptorTax
Incentive
Program (PTIP):
2017 HB 301
Current 2014 PTIP bill is $10,000 tax deduction for
licensed physicians
2017 HB 301 would have:
Allowed tax credit for physicians, APRN and PA’s
providing preceptorship
Tax Credit calculated as:
$500 x 1st,2nd and 3rd rotation, $1000 x 4-10 – MD/DO
$350 x 1-3, $750 x 4-10 – APRN, PA
The bill passed State House 162 – 0, Feb 27, 2017 but
did not pass the State Senate, looks good for passage
in the next session
2014 PTIP is still in place
7. ”Achieving
Connectivity
Everwhere (ACE)
Act” : 2018SB 402
– signedMay 7,
2018
Encourages the development of Georgia Broadband
Ready Community Site through the Department of
CommunityAffairs
SB 402 provides the regulatory framework by amending
the Official Code of Georgia giving the Georgia
Technology Authority to establish and implement
policies and programs to “promote and facilitate
broadband deployment” in the state
Recognizes ensuring deployment of broadband services
as a public necessity, a basic function of government,
and would benefit the entire state.
8. ”Achieving
Connectivity
Everwhere (ACE)
Act” : 2018SB 402
– signedMay 7,
2018
”The General Assembly finds and declares that it is vital that
the state provide equitable access to broadband services
that will ensure that this necessary utility that provides
support for education, work, engagement with government,
healthcare, public safety, and leisure is available to all
citizens of Georgia.” - SB 402, PartV, Sec 5-1, 196-200
Priority for grant applications with proposal to provide
broadband services:
“…hospitals and other health care facilites such as telehealth
facilities and emergency care facilities,…” – SB 402, 265-268
Framed to encourage public-private cooperation /
partnership to bring broadband access to all parts of Georgia
State Senator Steve Gooch was given GAFP Family Medicine
Legislative Champion of theYear for advancing this
legislation
9. For more info
on PTIP inGA
Denise Kornegay, MSW, Executive Director
Georgia Statewide AHEC Network - Augusta University
(706) 721-8331 (T)
dkornega@augusta.edu
https://www.augusta.edu/ahec/ptip/