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student loans. Only the executive director of the Washington student 1 achievement council or the executive director's designee may 2 authorize expenditures from the account. The account is subject to 3 the allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, moneys in the 4 account may be spent only after appropriation. During the 2023-2025 5 fiscal biennium, the legislature may direct the state treasurer to 6 make transfers of moneys in the Washington student loan account to 7 the state general fund. 8 Sec. 925. RCW 28B.115.070 and 2022 c 276 s 4 are each amended to 9 read as follows: 10 (1) After June 1, 1992, the department, in consultation with the 11 office and the department of social and health services, shall: 12 (a) Determine eligible credentialed health care professions for 13 the purposes of the health professional loan repayment and 14 scholarship program and the behavioral health loan repayment program 15 authorized by this chapter. Eligibility shall be based upon an 16 assessment that determines that there is a shortage or insufficient 17 availability of a credentialed profession so as to jeopardize patient 18 care and pose a threat to the public health and safety. The 19 department shall consider the relative degree of shortages among 20 professions when determining eligibility. The department may add or 21 remove professions from eligibility based upon the determination that 22 a profession is no longer in shortage. Should a profession no longer 23 be eligible, participants or eligible students who have received 24 scholarships shall be eligible to continue to receive scholarships or 25 loan repayments until they are no longer eligible or until their 26 service obligation has been completed; 27 (b) Determine health professional shortage areas for each of the 28 eligible credentialed health care professions; and 29 (c) Determine underserved behavioral health areas for each of the 30 eligible credentialed health care professions. 31 (2) The office, in consultation with the department, shall 32 determine selection criteria for nurse educators and approved nursing 33 programs. 34 (3) For the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium, consideration for 35 eligibility for loan repayment shall also be given to chiropractors 36 and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners. 37 p. 671 ESSB 5187.SL