Bill Text: NY A03279 | 2023-2024 | 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 27-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-15 - print number 3279c [A03279 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3279

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and  the  state  finance  law,  in
          relation to establishing a reproductive health services training 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  2807-nn to read as follows:
     3    §  2807-nn.  Reproductive health training and education grant program.
     4  1. As used in this section, "eligible participant" means  an  intern  or
     5  resident  who  is  employed  by  a  hospital or otherwise enrolled in an
     6  accredited graduate medical education program.
     7    2. The commissioner, shall establish a  reproductive  health  services
     8  training  and  education  grant  program  for  eligible  participants as
     9  defined in subdivision one of this section.  Such  grant  program  shall
    10  consist  of  two  to  six  weeks of clinical training in accordance with
    11  Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education standards for clin-
    12  ical training in the performance of abortion  and  related  reproductive
    13  health  services  and  shall  otherwise  meet  professionally recognized
    14  training standards as defined by the commissioner.
    15    3. The commissioner is authorized,  within  amounts  appropriated  for
    16  such  purpose  to  make grants in accordance with this subdivision. Such
    17  grants may be used for administration, faculty recruitment and  develop-
    18  ment,  start-up  costs  and  costs incurred teaching reproductive health
    19  care  in  hospital-based  programs  or  non-hospital-based  care  sites,
    20  including,  but  not  limited  to, personnel, administration and trainee
    21  related expenses and other expenses judged reasonable and  necessary  by
    22  the  commissioner.  As  used in this section, "trainee related expenses"
    23  shall include a travel and housing stipend paid to each intern or  resi-
    24  dent if deemed necessary.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04346-01-3
        A. 3279                             2

     1    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-qq to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  99-qq. Reproductive health training and education fund. 1. There is
     4  hereby established in the joint custody of  the  state  comptroller  and
     5  commissioner  of  taxation and finance a special fund to be known as the
     6  "reproductive health training and education fund".
     7    2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated thereto from any
     8  other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this  section
     9  shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the
    10  purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into
    11  the fund according to law.
    12    3.  Moneys  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
    13  the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by  the  commissioner
    14  of health.
    15    4.  The  moneys  in  such  fund shall be expended for the reproductive
    16  health services training and education grant program in accordance  with
    17  the  provisions  of  section twenty-eight hundred seven-nn of the public
    18  health law.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    21  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    22  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    23  on or before such effective date.