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. LBD04346-01-3A. 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.