STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7045 IN SENATE March 18, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MONTGOMERY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the Kings county health care facility transformation program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 2825-a of the public health law is 2 renumbered subdivision 6 and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as 3 follows: 4 5. (a) The agreement entered into pursuant to subdivision two of this 5 section shall include: 6 (i) a schedule or timetable for the issuance of the request for appli- 7 cations, the receipt of applications and the awarding of the grants; 8 (ii) a description of the process or procedures for determining the 9 amounts to be awarded to each applicant; and 10 (iii) a description of how the grants will be distributed, adminis- 11 tered and monitored. 12 (b) Within thirty days after the deadline for the receipt of applica- 13 tions, the commissioner shall make available to the public, including 14 posting on the official website of the department and of the dormitory 15 authority of the state of New York, a copy of all applications received 16 and the amount of the grant requested by, or to be awarded to, each 17 applicant. The commissioner and the president of the dormitory authority 18 of the state of New York shall conduct at least one public hearing in 19 the county of Kings at least sixty days prior to the date of award. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14107-02-6