Establishes a reproductive health services training and education grant program to train interns or residents who are employed by a hospital or otherwise enrolled in an accredited graduate medical education program in the performance of abortion and related reproductive health services
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3279--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, REYES,
BURDICK, BURGOS, PAULIN, SIMON, WOERNER, LEVENBERG, KELLES, CUNNING-
HAM, DE LOS SANTOS, OTIS, O'DONNELL, GLICK, McMAHON, TAPIA, RAGA,
SIMONE, SHRESTHA, JACOBSON, THIELE, L. ROSENTHAL, SHIMSKY -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance
with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 eligible participants in the performance of abortion and related repro-
2 ductive health services. Such eligible providers shall meet profes-
3 sionally recognized training standards, comply with applicable state law
4 and regulations, and shall be capable of providing culturally congruent
5 care and implicit bias training.
6 3. The commissioner is authorized, within amounts appropriated for
7 such purpose to make grants in accordance with this subdivision. Such
8 grants may be used for administration, faculty recruitment and develop-
9 ment, start-up costs and costs incurred teaching reproductive health
10 care.
11 4. The commissioner shall submit a report, on December thirty-first,
12 two thousand twenty-four and annually thereafter, to the governor and to
13 the legislature which shall include, but not be limited to, the total
14 amount of grants issued, the number of eligible participants, the number
15 of eligible providers, and the region of the state where the eligible
16 provider is located. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
17 commissioner shall not report any information related to identifying
18 information of eligible participants in the program.
19 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-g to
20 read as follows:
21 § 99-g. Reproductive health services training and education fund. 1.
22 There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state comp-
23 troller and commissioner of taxation and finance a special fund to be
24 known as the "reproductive health services training and education fund".
25 2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated thereto from any
26 other fund or source pursuant to law. Nothing contained in this section
27 shall prevent the state from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the
28 purposes of the fund as defined in this section and depositing them into
29 the fund according to law.
30 3. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
31 the state comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commis-
32 sioner of health.
33 4. The moneys in such fund shall be expended for the reproductive
34 health services training and education grant program in accordance with
35 the provisions of section twenty-eight hundred seven-nn of the public
36 health law.
37 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
38 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
39 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
40 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
41 on or before such effective date.
