Bill Text: NY A09097 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2020-12-15 - VETOED MEMO.76 [A09097 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09097-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9097

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        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 twenty-one.
    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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