Bill Text: NY A02426 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the New York State medical indemnity fund account payments; extends provisions relating to payments from the New York state medical indemnity fund; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - referred to health [A02426 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02426-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2426

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 16, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the New York state
          medical  indemnity  fund account payments; and to amend chapter 517 of
          the laws of 2016, amending the public health law relating to  payments
          from  the  New  York  state medical indemnity fund, in relation to the
          effectiveness  thereof;  and  providing  for  the  repeal  of  certain
          provisions of the public health law upon the expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 6 of  section  2999-i  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as amended by section 2 of part K of chapter 57 of
     3  the laws of 2019, is amended and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as
     4  follows:
     5    (d) The suspension of enrollment pursuant to  paragraph  (a)  of  this
     6  subdivision  shall  not  impact payment under the fund for any qualified
     7  plaintiffs already enrolled in the fund for the remainder of the  quali-
     8  fied  plaintiff's  life.   Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or
     9  regulation to the contrary, the fund account is authorized  to  maintain
    10  payments  for  qualified plaintiffs already enrolled in the fund for the
    11  entire state fiscal year even if  total  expenditures  exceed  available
    12  appropriation authority.
    13    (e)  Notwithstanding  any  provision of law, rule or regulation to the
    14  contrary, on or after April first, two thousand twenty-five and annually
    15  thereafter, the state comptroller shall transfer money  from  the  state
    16  treasury into the fund account in an amount which shall be sufficient to
    17  avoid  suspension  of  new  enrollment for the entire state fiscal year.
    18  Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the  contra-
    19  ry, any appropriation or appropriations in the enacted state budget that
    20  authorizes disbursement of funds from the fund account shall increase by
    21  an  amount  that  is  equal  to  the  amount  necessary  to support such

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  disbursement of money in the fund account that will avoid suspension  of
     2  new enrollment for the entire state fiscal year.
     3    § 2. Section 5 of chapter 517 of the laws of 2016, amending the public
     4  health  law  relating to payments from the New York state medical indem-
     5  nity fund, as amended by chapter 112 of the laws of 2023, is amended  to
     6  read as follows:
     7    §  5. This act shall take effect on the forty-fifth day after it shall
     8  have become a law, provided that the  amendments  to  subdivision  4  of
     9  section  2999-j of the public health law made by section two of this act
    10  shall take effect on June 30, 2017  [and  shall  expire  and  be  deemed
    11  repealed December 31, 2025].
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and be deemed to have been
    13  in  full  force and effect on April 1, 2025; provided however, paragraph
    14  (e) of subdivision 6 of section 2999-i of  the  public  health  law,  as
    15  added by section one of this act, shall expire and be deemed repealed on
    16  March 31, 2027.