Bill Text: NY A02439 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a reproductive health services training and education grant program to ensure health care providers receive adequate training in abortion care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - referred to health [A02439 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02439-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2439

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  EPSTEIN,  SEAWRIGHT,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS, REYES,
          BURDICK,  PAULIN,  SIMON,  WOERNER,  LEVENBERG,  KELLES,   CUNNINGHAM,
          DE LOS SANTOS,  OTIS,  GLICK,  McMAHON, TAPIA, RAGA, SIMONE, SHRESTHA,
          JACOBSON, ROSENTHAL, SHIMSKY, LEE -- read once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to establishing a
          reproductive health services training and education grant program

          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  2599-bb-2 to read as follows:
     3    § 2599-bb-2. Reproductive health services training and education grant
     4  program. 1. As used in this section:
     5    (a) "eligible participant" shall mean  any  health  care  practitioner
     6  authorized  to  perform  abortion  care  pursuant to section twenty-five
     7  hundred ninety-nine-bb of this article or an intern or resident  who  is
     8  employed  by  a hospital or otherwise enrolled in an accredited graduate
     9  medical education program;
    10    (b) "program" shall mean a reproductive health services  training  and
    11  education grant program;
    12    (c)  "professional  educator" shall mean community-based organizations
    13  providing reproductive health care, continuing  education  programs  for
    14  qualified providers through professional associations or clinical educa-
    15  tion  programs  that  meet professionally recognized training standards,
    16  comply with applicable state laws and regulations, and  are  capable  of
    17  providing culturally congruent care and implicit bias training; and
    18    (d)  "abortion" shall have the same meaning as is set forth in section
    19  twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of this article.
    20    2. There is hereby established within the  department  a  reproductive
    21  health  services  training  and education grant program to ensure health
    22  care providers receive adequate training in abortion care.  The  program

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04174-01-5
        A. 2439                             2

     1  shall provide funding for professional educators that provide or facili-
     2  tate  clinical  education  related  to  abortion  care and other related
     3  reproductive health services. The program shall be designed  to  provide
     4  support to clinical educators in program development and administration,
     5  and  to  address  the  support  needs  of individuals seeking additional
     6  training on abortion care. Funding used to support the program shall  be
     7  subject to appropriation.
     8    3.  The  commissioner  shall  distribute funds made available for this
     9  purpose under this section. In determining funding for applicants  under
    10  the  grant program, the commissioner shall consider the following crite-
    11  ria and goals:
    12    (a) Program development and administration. Funds may  be  awarded  to
    13  support the administration and operation of clinical education programs,
    14  faculty  recruitment  and  development,  and  the expansion of residency
    15  programs to accommodate additional placements.
    16    (b) Addressing  practical  support  needs  of  eligible  participants.
    17  Funds  may  be  awarded  to support an eligible participant in obtaining
    18  clinical education  on  abortion  care  and  other  reproductive  health
    19  services,  including,  but  not limited to, financial support for travel
    20  and lodging associated with attending a program.
    21    4. In establishing and operating the  program,  the  commissioner  may
    22  consult  a  range of experts, including, but not limited to, individuals
    23  and entities providing abortion care, abortion funds, and  other  organ-
    24  izations  whose  mission is to expand access to abortion care, to ensure
    25  the program structure and expenditures reflect  the  needs  of  abortion
    26  providers, abortion funds and consumers. The commissioner may make regu-
    27  lations necessary for implementation of the program.
    28    5.  The commissioner shall submit a report no later than twelve months
    29  after the effective date of this section and annually thereafter, to the
    30  governor and to the legislature, which shall include, but not be limited
    31  to, the total amount of grants issued, the number  of  eligible  partic-
    32  ipants,  the  number  of eligible providers, and the region of the state
    33  where the eligible providers  are  located.  Notwithstanding  any  other
    34  provision  of  law,  the  commissioner  shall not report any information
    35  related to identifying  information  of  eligible  participants  in  the
    36  program.
    37    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    38  the date upon which it shall have become a law.  Effective  immediately,
    39  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    40  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    41  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.