Bill Text: NY A02359 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the withholding of state funding for service providers for people with developmental disabilities due to the receipt of certain COVID-19 federal funds.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A02359 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02359-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2359 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, DARLING, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, EPSTEIN, SEPTIMO, DeSTEFANO, SIMON, SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on People with Disabilities AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to prohibiting the withholding of state funding for service providers for people with developmental disabilities due to the receipt of COVID-19 federal funds The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 2 16.38 to read as follows: 3 § 16.38 Funding for services of the office for people with developmental 4 disabilities not affected by the receipt of certain COVID-19 5 federal funds. 6 A holder of an operating certificate issued pursuant to this article 7 or organization whose incorporation or activities require the approval 8 of the commissioner, or program funded or administered by the office 9 shall not have any state funding withheld as a result of the receipt of 10 federal funds that were provided to such operating certificate holder, 11 organization or program: 12 (a) as part of any federal paycheck protection program loan forgive- 13 ness funding; 14 (b) as a result of federal emergency management agency emergency 15 protective measures, including but not limited to personal protective 16 equipment and cleaning services; 17 (c) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security 18 (CARES) Act of 2020; 19 (d) as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, American 20 Rescue Plan Act of 2021; or 21 (e) as other extraordinary federal funding provided in response to the 22 COVID-19 pandemic. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to 24 have been in full force and effect on and after March 13, 2020. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04746-01-3