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Health care preceptorships are hands-on training arrangements in which a practicing physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse directly supervises and instructs a student, and currently these providers typically do this work without pay. This bill would create a new "Preceptor Fund" that the Department of Health and Human Services could use to pay health care providers who supervise students from Utah-based medical, nursing, or physician assistant programs for at least 160 hours, with hours allowed to be combined across multiple students to meet that threshold. The fund would be financed through private donations, gifts, or grants, as well as any money the Legislature chooses to appropriate in the future, and the Division of Professional Licensing would be required to give health care providers the option to donate to the fund when applying for or renewing their professional license. The department would also be authorized to create rules governing how providers apply for payments, how funds are prioritized and distributed, and other details needed to run the program.