Bill Text: NY A11281 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-07-25 - referred to health [A11281 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A11281-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11281 IN ASSEMBLY July 25, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of 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 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. LBD16302-01-8