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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3060--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 27, 2023
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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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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.
