Bill Text: NY S03060 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-28 - PRINT NUMBER 3060B [S03060 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03060-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3060--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. KRUEGER, BROUK, FERNANDEZ, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON,
          MAYER, SALAZAR, WEBB -- read  twice  and  ordered  printed,  and  when
          printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
          the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6,  sec.  8  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and  the  state  finance  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  2807-nn to read as follows:
     3    § 2807-nn. Reproductive health services training and  education  grant
     4  program. 1. As used in this section:
     5    (a) "eligible participant" includes but is not limited to a physician,
     6  nurse practitioner, midwife, or physician assistant, for whom performing
     7  abortion care is within their scope of practice or an intern or resident
     8  who  is  employed  by  a hospital or otherwise enrolled in an accredited
     9  graduate medical education program;
    10    (b) "program" shall mean a reproductive health services  training  and
    11  education grant program; and
    12    (c)  "eligible  providers"  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.
    16    2.  The  commissioner  shall  establish a reproductive health services
    17  training and education grant program for  eligible  providers  to  train
    18  eligible  participants in the performance of abortion and related repro-
    19  ductive health services. Such  eligible  providers  shall  meet  profes-
    20  sionally recognized training standards, comply with applicable state law

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 3060--A                          2

     1  and  regulations, and shall be capable of providing culturally congruent
     2  care and implicit bias training.
     3    3.  The  commissioner  is  authorized, within amounts appropriated for
     4  such purpose to make grants in accordance with  this  subdivision.  Such
     5  grants  may be used for administration, faculty recruitment and develop-
     6  ment, start-up costs and costs  incurred  teaching  reproductive  health
     7  care.
     8    4.  The  commissioner shall submit a report, on December thirty-first,
     9  two thousand twenty-three and annually thereafter, to the  governor  and
    10  to the legislature which shall include, but not be limited to, the total
    11  amount of grants issued, the number of eligible participants, the number
    12  of  eligible  providers,  and the region of the state where the eligible
    13  provider is located. Notwithstanding any other  provision  of  law,  the
    14  commissioner  shall  not  report  any information related to identifying
    15  information of eligible participants in the program.
    16    § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-g  to
    17  read as follows:
    18    §  99-g.  Reproductive health services training and education fund. 1.
    19  There is hereby established in the joint  custody  of  the  state  comp-
    20  troller  and  commissioner  of taxation and finance a special fund to be
    21  known as the "reproductive health services training and education fund".
    22    2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated thereto from any
    23  other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this  section
    24  shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the
    25  purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into
    26  the fund according to law.
    27    3.  Moneys  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
    28  the state comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the  commis-
    29  sioner of health.
    30    4.  The  moneys  in  such  fund shall be expended for the reproductive
    31  health services training and education grant program in accordance  with
    32  the  provisions  of  section twenty-eight hundred seven-nn of the public
    33  health law.
    34    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    35  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    36  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    37  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    38  on or before such effective date.