PennsylvaniaActive2025-2026

Improving National Guard Medical & Specialty Officer Incentives

HB 1102 expands existing incentive programs to include additional specialty branch officers. It extends the partial tuition reimbursement program to cover Guard service by U.S. Army JAG officers and chaplains, fine-tunes the list of eligible medical and health officers, and creates a tiered reimbursement structure based on educational attainment to offset the cost of advanced accreditation.

Talking Points

Use these when contacting your representatives.

  1. The Guard competes with the private sector for doctors, nurses, lawyers, and chaplains, and HB 1102 helps it keep them.

    The bill extends the partial tuition reimbursement program to JAG officers and chaplains and refines the list of eligible medical and health officers.

  2. These specialties keep Soldiers and Airmen healthy, legally protected, and spiritually supported.

    Medical, legal, and chaplain officers are readiness multipliers whose roles require advanced, expensive credentials.

  3. A tiered, education-based incentive sends dollars where the shortage is greatest.

    HB 1102 ties reimbursement to educational attainment, focusing support on the hardest-to-fill, highest-credential specialties.

Related Legislation

1 bill linked to this priority.

HB1102Status 2Pennsylvania

In military educational programs relating to medical officer or health officer incentive program, further providing for definitions, for establishment of program, for program stipend, for additional incentives, for recoupment of incentive payments, for adjustment of stipend amounts and for eligibility; and making editorial changes.

Latest: Status 2

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