Bill Text: NY S08906 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of health to appoint a work group to conduct a thorough review of the accessibility and fairness of the New York State Grant Gateway for individual applicants for funds under the physician loan repayment and physician practice support programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-15 - PRINT NUMBER 8906A [S08906 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08906-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8906--A
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 4, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to applications for
          funds under  the  physician  loan  repayment  and  physician  practice
          support programs
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (e-1) of subdivision 5-a of section 2807-m of the
     2  public health law, as amended by section 6 of part H of  chapter  57  of
     3  the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (e-1) Work group. For funding available pursuant to paragraphs (d) and
     5  (e) of this subdivision:
     6    (i)  The  department  shall  appoint a work group from recommendations
     7  made by associations  representing  physicians,  general  hospitals  and
     8  other  health care facilities to develop a streamlined application proc-
     9  ess by June first, two thousand twelve.
    10    (ii) Subject to available funding, applications shall be accepted on a
    11  continuous basis. The department shall provide technical  assistance  to
    12  applicants  to facilitate their completion of applications. An applicant
    13  shall be notified in writing  by  the  department  within  ten  days  of
    14  receipt  of an application as to whether the application is complete and
    15  if the application is incomplete, what information is  outstanding.  The
    16  department  shall act on an application within thirty days of receipt of
    17  a complete application.
    18    (iii) The department shall appoint a work group including  individuals
    19  recommended  by  associations representing physicians, general hospitals
    20  and other health care facilities, to assess the impact  of  the  current
    21  grant  application process on the number of individual applicants versus
    22  institutional applicants in underserved areas and shall include a  thor-
    23  ough  review  of  the  accessibility  and fairness of the New York State
    24  Grant Gateway for individual applicants by March thirty-first, two thou-
    25  sand nineteen.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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