2. The commissioner is authorized, within amounts available pursuant to subdivision nineteen-a of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c and section twenty-eight hundred seven-l of this chapter, to make loan repayment awards as follows:

1. (a) beginning January first, nineteen hundred ninety-four, to any resident who first entered a primary care medical training program on or after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-four in the second or third year of such program; provided such resident agrees to practice primary care in an underserved area in New York state for one year for each such annual award received, with such practice beginning immediately after completion of such residency training. Such resident shall be eligible for an award of up to ten thousand dollars per year and beginning January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven of up to fifteen thousand dollars per year; and
2. (b) beginning January first, nineteen hundred ninety-five, to a primary care physician, emergency medicine physician or other physician specialty determined by the commissioner to be in short supply, licensed to practice medicine in New York state, who agrees to practice for at least two years in an underserved area. Such physician shall be eligible for a loan repayment award of up to ten thousand dollars per year and beginning January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven of up to fifteen thousand dollars per year for each of the first two years of practice in such area; provided, however, if such physician agrees to practice for an additional two years in such area, then such physician shall be eligible for an award of up to fifteen thousand dollars per year and beginning January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven of up to twenty thousand dollars per year for each of the second two years of such practice.