SB 5910 - DIGEST

(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 1ST SUB)

Finds that it is in the best interest of the state to contribute funding to create a loan repayment assistance program at the University of Washington law school. It is the intent of the legislature in enacting this legislation to provide for the partial or full repayment of educational loans of University of Washington law school graduates who provide legal services in a public service area of the law.

Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, from the general fund to the University of Washington school of law public service legal loan repayment assistance program for the purposes of this act.

Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, from the general fund to the University of Washington school of law public service legal loan repayment assistance program for the purposes of this act.