Directs the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports to promulgate rules and regulations for providers operating in rural locations while taking into account the extra challenges encountered by such providers, including but not limited to, increased and additional expenses.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5105
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, FERNANDEZ, WEBB -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcohol-
ism and Substance Use Disorders
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to directing the
commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports to
promulgate rules and regulations for providers operating in rural
locations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 19.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
3 (m) The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations for
4 providers who operate in rural locations that take into account the
5 extra challenges encountered by such providers, including but not limit-
6 ed to, increased and additional expenses.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
8 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
9 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
10 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
11 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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