Relates to the distribution of grants for the health workforce retraining program to grant recipients with health workforce retraining projects in multiple regions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5516
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the distribution
of grants for the health workforce retraining program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2807-g of the public health law,
2 as added by chapter 1 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. Grants shall be made on a competitive basis by region, in accord-
5 ance with the amount raised in the region, provided that no less than
6 two and one-half percent of the total funds made available in any
7 request for proposals shall be made available in any region, with pref-
8 erence within regions given to areas and eligible organizations that
9 have experienced or are likely to experience job loss because of changes
10 in the health care system. If, at the conclusion of the regional compet-
11 itive contract award process, there are excess funds available within
12 any regional allocation, such funds shall be redistributed to regions
13 where there is a shortage of funds available for programs which other-
14 wise qualify for funding pursuant to this section. If a grant recipient
15 has received grant awards for the same workforce retraining project in
16 multiple regions, such grant recipient, with the approval of the commis-
17 sioner, may redistribute funds among said regions.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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