Bill Text: NY A10517 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes assisted living programs and hospice providers eligible for access funding under the health care facility transformation program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-31 - referred to health [A10517 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10517-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10517
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 31, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providers eligible
          to access  funding  under  the  health  care  facility  transformation
          program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 2825-d of the public health
     2  law, as added by section 2 of part F of chapter 59 of the laws of  2016,
     3  are amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  The  commissioner  and  the president of the authority shall enter
     5  into an agreement, subject to approval by the director  of  the  budget,
     6  and  subject  to section sixteen hundred eighty-r of the public authori-
     7  ties law, for the purposes of awarding, distributing, and  administering
     8  the  funds  made  available  pursuant to this section. Such funds may be
     9  distributed by the commissioner and the president of the  authority  for
    10  capital grants to general hospitals, residential health care facilities,
    11  diagnostic  and  treatment  centers  [and], clinics licensed pursuant to
    12  this chapter or the mental hygiene law,  assisted  living  programs  and
    13  hospice  providers,  for  capital non-operational works or purposes that
    14  support the purposes set forth in this section. A copy  of  such  agree-
    15  ment,  and any amendments thereto, shall be provided to the chair of the
    16  senate finance committee, the chair  of  the  assembly  ways  and  means
    17  committee,  and  the  director  of  the division of budget no later than
    18  thirty days prior to the release of a request for applications for fund-
    19  ing under this program. Priority shall be given to projects not  funded,
    20  in  whole  or in part, under section twenty-eight hundred twenty-five or
    21  twenty-eight hundred twenty-five-c of this article.   Projects  awarded,
    22  in  whole or part, under sections twenty-eight hundred twenty-five-a and
    23  twenty-eight hundred twenty-five-b of this article shall not be eligible
    24  for grants or awards made available under this section.
    25    3. Notwithstanding  section  one  hundred  sixty-three  of  the  state
    26  finance  law or any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary, up to
    27  two hundred million dollars of the funds appropriated for  this  program
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15436-01-6
        A. 10517                            2
     1  shall be awarded without a competitive bid or request for proposal proc-
     2  ess  for  capital  grants  to  health  care providers (hereafter "appli-
     3  cants").  Provided however that a minimum of thirty million  dollars  of
     4  total awarded funds shall be made to community-based health care provid-
     5  ers,  which, for purposes of this section shall be defined as a diagnos-
     6  tic and treatment center licensed or granted  an  operating  certificate
     7  under  this article; a mental health clinic licensed or granted an oper-
     8  ating certificate under article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law; an
     9  alcohol and substance abuse treatment  clinic  licensed  or  granted  an
    10  operating  certificate  under  article  thirty-two of the mental hygiene
    11  law; primary care providers;  [or  a]  home  care  [provider]  providers
    12  certified or licensed pursuant to article thirty-six of this chapter; an
    13  assisted  living  program  licensed  pursuant  to  section  four hundred
    14  sixty-one-l of the social services law; or a hospice  provider  licensed
    15  pursuant  to  this article. Eligible applicants shall be those deemed by
    16  the commissioner to be a provider that fulfills or will fulfill a health
    17  care need for acute inpatient, outpatient, primary, home care  or  resi-
    18  dential health care services in a community.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.