Bill Text: NY S06376 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Provides that, on an annual basis, at least 25% of the moneys deposited into the health care transformation fund shall be allocated exclusively for certain community-based health care providers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S06376 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06376-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6376--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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 state finance law, in relation to the health care
          transformation fund

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 92-hh of the state finance law, as
     2  added by section 1 of subpart A of part FFF of chapter 59 of the laws of
     3  2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, moneys of the
     5  health  care  transformation fund shall be available for transfer to any
     6  other fund of the state as authorized and directed by  the  director  of
     7  the  budget  to  support  health  care  delivery,  including for capital
     8  investment, debt retirement or restructuring, housing and  other  social
     9  determinants of health, or transitional operating support to health care
    10  providers.  On  and after the date this sentence becomes a law, at least
    11  twenty-five percent of the moneys deposited into such fund on an  annual
    12  basis  shall  be  allocated  exclusively for community-based health care
    13  providers which shall be defined as a diagnostic  and  treatment  center
    14  licensed  or granted an operating certificate under article twenty-eight
    15  of the public health law, a mental health outpatient  provider  licensed
    16  or  granted  an  operating  certificate  under article thirty-one of the
    17  mental hygiene law, a substance use disorder treatment provider licensed
    18  or granted an operating certificate  under  article  thirty-two  of  the
    19  mental  hygiene  law,  a program licensed under article forty-one of the
    20  mental hygiene law, a community-based program funded under the office of
    21  mental health, the office for people  with  developmental  disabilities,
    22  the office of addiction services and supports or through a local govern-
    23  ment  unit as defined under article forty-one of the mental hygiene law,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11602-07-9

        S. 6376--A                          2

     1  a home care provider certified or licensed pursuant to  article  thirty-
     2  six of the public health law, a primary care provider, a clinic licensed
     3  or  granted an operating certificate under article sixteen of the mental
     4  hygiene  law,  a  provider  of  health home services as authorized under
     5  section 2703 of the  federal  protection  and  affordable  care  act,  a
     6  hospice  provider  licensed  or  granted  an operating certificate under
     7  article forty of the public health law, or a family  and  child  service
     8  provider  licensed under article twenty-nine-I of the public health law,
     9  for the exclusive  purpose  of  supporting  the  programs  and  services
    10  defined in this subdivision.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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