Bill Text: NY A07182 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that, on an annual basis, at least 25% of the moneys deposited into the health care transformation fund shall be allocated exclusively for certain community-based health care providers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A07182 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07182-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7182

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 12, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN,  CRUZ, HUNTER, SIMON, SAYEGH, GLICK,
          LUPARDO, REYES, COLTON, GUNTHER, JACKSON -- read once and referred  to
          the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend the state finance law, in relation to the health care
          transformation fund

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 92-hh of the state finance law, as
     2  added by section 1 of subpart A of part FFF of chapter 59 of the laws of
     3  2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, moneys of the
     5  health  care  transformation fund shall be available for transfer to any
     6  other fund of the state as authorized and directed by  the  director  of
     7  the  budget  to  support  health  care  delivery,  including for capital
     8  investment, debt retirement or restructuring, housing and  other  social
     9  determinants of health, or transitional operating support to health care
    10  providers.  On  and after the date this sentence becomes a law, at least
    11  twenty-five percent of the moneys deposited into such fund on an  annual
    12  basis  shall  be  allocated  exclusively for community-based health care
    13  providers which shall be defined as a diagnostic  and  treatment  center
    14  licensed  or granted an operating certificate under article twenty-eight
    15  of the public health law, a mental health outpatient  provider  licensed
    16  or  granted  an  operating  certificate  under article thirty-one of the
    17  mental hygiene law, a substance use disorder treatment provider licensed
    18  or granted an operating certificate  under  article  thirty-two  of  the
    19  mental  hygiene  law,  a program licensed under article forty-one of the
    20  mental hygiene law, a community-based program funded under the office of
    21  mental health, the office for people  with  developmental  disabilities,
    22  the office of addiction services and supports or through a local govern-
    23  ment  unit as defined under article forty-one of the mental hygiene law,
    24  a home care provider certified or licensed pursuant to  article  thirty-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  six of the public health law, a primary care provider, a clinic licensed
     2  or  granted an operating certificate under article sixteen of the mental
     3  hygiene law, a provider of health  home  services  as  authorized  under
     4  section  2703  of  the  federal  protection  and  affordable care act, a
     5  hospice provider licensed or  granted  an  operating  certificate  under
     6  article  forty  of  the public health law, or a family and child service
     7  provider licensed under article twenty-nine-I of the public health  law,
     8  for  the  exclusive  purpose  of  supporting  the  programs and services
     9  defined in this subdivision.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.