Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 7. SCHOLARSHIPS, LOANS, AND GRANTS · Part 6. MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIPS

20-3-518. Legislative purpose.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

It is the purpose and intent of this part to bring about an adequate supply of persons licensed to practice medicine in the more sparsely populated areas of the State of Georgia by increasing the number of medical students from Georgia with scholarships awarded by the board pursuant to this part attending the various medical schools and inducing a sufficient number of the graduates from medical schools to return to Georgia and practice their profession in rural and underserved areas, thus affording adequate medical care to the people of Georgia.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 20-3-518, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 951, § 1; Ga. L. 2011, p. 459, § 1/HB 509; Ga. L. 2014, p. 333, § 4/HB 998.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

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