Filed Date: 11/14/1979
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 7/5/2016
REQUESTED BY: Dear Senator Maresh:
You have asked if you will need to introduce legislation to enable the Commission on Rural Health Manpower to administer the Nebraska Medical Student Assistance Act as amended by Laws 1979, LB 506. We have concluded that the commission already has that authority.
Under section
"The provisions of sections
71-5609 and71-5612 to71-5645 shall be administered by the commission with such assistance from the Department of Health as may be needed."
According to section
Laws 1979, LB 506, amended several sections in the Nebraska Medical Student Assistance Act and repealed others, but it did not amend or repeal any of the sections referred to above. The Legislature is presumed to have had in mind all previous legislation on a subject so that in the construction of a statute or a part thereof courts may consider the pre-existing law. See Ledwith v. Bankers Life InsuranceCompany of Nebraska,
We have concluded that the Commission on Rural Health Manpower has authority to administer the Nebraska Medical Student Assistance Act as amended by Laws 1979, LB 506. Under present laws it may continue to do so beyond three years after September 2, 1977.