Bill Text: NY S07762 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public hospitals to establish auto-immune disease treatment centers; authorizes the commissioner of health, with the assistance of the office of health equity, to make funds available to public hospitals for such purpose.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07762 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07762-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7762

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    November 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  public
          hospitals to establish auto-immune disease treatment centers

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

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2807-g to read as follows:
     3    §  2807-g.  Auto-immune disease treatment centers. 1. For the purposes
     4  of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
     5    (a) "Auto-immune disease treatment  center  project"  shall  mean  the
     6  construction,  reconstruction, renovation, rehabilitation, refurbishing,
     7  expansion, upgrading, or equipping of an auto-immune  disease  treatment
     8  center.
     9    (b)  "Hospital" shall mean a public hospital located in the state that
    10  is operated by a county or municipality and receives state  funding  for
    11  its operations.
    12    2.  The  commissioner  shall  require that all hospitals as defined in
    13  this section shall establish and implement an auto-immune disease treat-
    14  ment center.
    15    3. (a) The commissioner is authorized to make funds of the  department
    16  available   to   hospitals  for  auto-immune  disease  treatment  center
    17  projects.
    18    (b) Such funds may be provided pursuant to the provisions  of  section
    19  twenty-eight  hundred  twenty-six of this article or any other provision
    20  of law or regulation deemed to be appropriate by  the  commissioner  for
    21  carrying out the purposes of this section.
    22    4.  The office of health equity, as established by section two hundred
    23  forty-one as amended by chapter 523 of the laws of 2022, of  this  chap-
    24  ter,  shall  assist the commissioner in allocating and distributing such

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13487-01-3
        S. 7762                             2

     1  funds pursuant to subdivision two of this section, including the  devel-
     2  opment of a methodology or procedure therefor.
     3    5.  The commissioner shall promulgate any rules and regulations neces-
     4  sary to effectuate the provisions of this section.
     5    6. The commissioner shall report annually  to  the  governor  and  the
     6  legislature  all  monies  allocated  and  distributed  pursuant  to this
     7  section.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    10  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    11  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or
    12  before such effective date.