Bill Text: NY S05396 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports to promulgate rules and regulations for providers operating in rural locations while taking into account the extra challenges encountered by such providers, including but not limited to, increased and additional expenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-03 - referred to ways and means [S05396 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05396-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5396

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Use Disorders

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the mental hygiene law, in relation to directing the
          commissioner of the office  of  addiction  services  and  supports  to
          promulgate  rules  and  regulations  for  providers operating in rural
          locations

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  19.09  of  the  mental hygiene law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
     3    (m) The  commissioner  shall  promulgate  rules  and  regulations  for
     4  providers  who  operate  in  rural  locations that take into account the
     5  extra challenges encountered by such providers, including but not limit-
     6  ed to, increased and additional expenses.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
     8  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     9  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    10  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    11  on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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