Bill Text: NY A02688 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants to eligible applicants to provide certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions or diseases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-22 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A02688 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02688-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2688
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 17, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. GOTTFRIED, PAULIN, JACOBS, GUNTHER, ROSENTHAL,
         CAHILL, GALEF, ENGLEBRIGHT, MILLMAN, JAFFEE, ZEBROWSKI, MAISEL,  HOOP-
         ER,  LUPARDO, SCHIMEL, TITONE, CASTRO, KELLNER, BROOK-KRASNY, ABINANTI
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  establishing  the
         clinical trial access and education fund
         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  2424 to read as follows:
    3    S 2424. CLINICAL TRIAL ACCESS AND EDUCATION FUND. 1. DEFINITIONS.  FOR
    4  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOW-
    5  ING MEANINGS:
    6    A.  "ELIGIBLE  APPLICANT"  MEANS  (I) A MEDICAL SCHOOL THAT SPONSORS A
    7  CLINICAL TRIAL, (II) A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WITH  EXPERIENCE  AND
    8  EXPERTISE  WORKING  WITH  PATIENTS  WITH  LIFE-THREATENING  OR DISABLING
    9  CONDITIONS OR DISEASES, (III) A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER ORGANIZATION, ASSO-
   10  CIATION  OR  SOCIETY,  (IV)  A  GENERAL  HOSPITAL  DEFINED  IN   ARTICLE
   11  TWENTY-EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER, (V) A COUNTY OR CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, OR
   12  (VI) A MUNICIPALITY.
   13    B.  "CLINICAL  TRIAL"  SHALL  HAVE  THE SAME MEANING AS IN SUBDIVISION
   14  TWO-B OF SECTION FORTY-NINE HUNDRED OF THIS CHAPTER.
   15    2. ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.  THERE  IS  HEREBY  ESTABLISHED  WITHIN  THE
   16  DEPARTMENT A CLINICAL TRIAL ACCESS AND EDUCATION FUND. SUBJECT TO APPRO-
   17  PRIATIONS, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE GRANTS TO ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS ON
   18  A  COMPETITIVE  REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL BASIS TO PROVIDE ONE OR MORE OF THE
   19  FOLLOWING SERVICES TO PATIENTS WITH LIFE-THREATENING OR DISABLING CONDI-
   20  TIONS OR DISEASES, AS SUCH  TERMS  ARE  DEFINED  IN  SECTION  FORTY-NINE
   21  HUNDRED  OF  THIS CHAPTER, TO FACILITATE ACCESS TO OR EDUCATION ON CLIN-
   22  ICAL TRIALS OF TREATMENTS FOR THE PATIENT'S CONDITION OR DISEASE:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01585-01-3
       A. 2688                             2
    1    A. TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AND LODGING TO PROVIDE PATIENTS WITH ACCESS
    2  TO CLINICAL TRIALS OR OTHER RELATED TREATMENTS WHILE ENROLLED IN A CLIN-
    3  ICAL TRIAL OR TO ACCESS TESTING AND OTHER SERVICES TO DETERMINE  PATIENT
    4  ELIGIBILITY FOR A CLINICAL TRIAL;
    5    B.  PATIENT OUTREACH AND EDUCATION SERVICES TO EDUCATE PATIENTS, THEIR
    6  FAMILIES AND HEALTH CARE  PROVIDERS  ABOUT  THE  EXISTENCE  OF  AND  HOW
    7  PATIENTS  MAY ENROLL IN CLINICAL TRIALS, UNDER SECTION TWO HUNDRED SEVEN
    8  OF THIS CHAPTER; AND
    9    C. PATIENT NAVIGATION SERVICES TO HELP PATIENTS TO DETERMINE  IF  THEY
   10  ARE ELIGIBLE FOR CLINICAL TRIALS, TO HELP PATIENTS TO ENROLL IN CLINICAL
   11  TRIALS  AND TO ASSIST PATIENTS IN DEALING WITH INSURANCE OR OTHER ISSUES
   12  WHICH SERVE AS BARRIERS TO PATIENT ENROLLMENT IN CLINICAL TRIALS.
   13    3. APPLICATIONS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH AN APPLICATION PROC-
   14  ESS BY WHICH ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS  MAY  APPLY  FOR  A  GRANT  UNDER  THIS
   15  SECTION.  THE APPLICATION SHALL INCLUDE:
   16    A. THE GEOGRAPHIC AREA IN WHICH THE SERVICES SHALL BE PROVIDED;
   17    B. A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED;
   18    C.  APPLICANT'S EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH PATIENTS WITH LIFE-THREATENING
   19  OR DISABLING CONDITIONS OR DISEASES;
   20    D. APPLICANT'S ABILITY TO PROVIDE PATIENT OUTREACH OR  CLINICAL  TRIAL
   21  EDUCATION  AND NAVIGATION SERVICES, OR COORDINATE OR PROVIDE TRANSPORTA-
   22  TION AND LODGING FOR PATIENTS; AND
   23    E. ANY OTHER INFORMATION THAT  THE  COMMISSIONER  DEEMS  RELEVANT  AND
   24  APPROPRIATE.
   25    THE COMMISSIONER SHALL GIVE PREFERENCE TO ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS WHO HAVE
   26  EXPERIENCE  AND EXPERTISE WORKING WITH PATIENTS WITH LIFE-THREATENING OR
   27  DISABLING CONDITIONS OR DISEASES AND PROVIDING PATIENT OUTREACH,  EDUCA-
   28  TION AND HEALTH CARE NAVIGATION SERVICES.
   29    4.  REPORTS. GRANTEES SHALL FILE AN ANNUAL REPORT WITH THE COMMISSION-
   30  ER, IN SUCH FORM AND WITH SUCH INFORMATION AND DATA AS THE  COMMISSIONER
   31  PRESCRIBES  DETAILING THE EXPENDITURE OF GRANT FUNDS AND SUMMARIZING THE
   32  EFFORTS UNDERTAKEN TO INCREASE PATIENT ACCESS TO CLINICAL TRIALS.
   33    5. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL MAKE  REGULATIONS  REASONABLY  NECESSARY  TO
   34  IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   35    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.