Senate Bill S954

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Expands the Doctors Across New York program to include dentists

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S954 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3977
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2807-m, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S5210, A7179
2013-2014: S2190, A2719
2015-2016: S3020, A3747
2017-2018: S3939, A5279
2021-2022: S4520, A7345
2023-2024: S4334, A1454

2019-S954 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the Doctors Across New York program to include dentists.

2019-S954 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S954 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    954
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. YOUNG, HELMING, KENNEDY, ORTT, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE
   -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
   the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  expanding  the
   Doctors Across New York program to include dentists

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 5-a of section 2807-m  of  the
 public  health  law,  as amended by section 6 of part H of chapter 57 of
 the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (d) Physician AND DENTIST loan repayment  program.  One  million  nine
 hundred  sixty  thousand dollars for the period January first, two thou-
 sand eight  through  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand  eight,  one
 million  nine  hundred  sixty  thousand  dollars  for the period January
 first, two thousand nine through  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand
 nine,  one  million  nine  hundred sixty thousand dollars for the period
 January first, two thousand ten through December thirty-first, two thou-
 sand ten, four hundred ninety thousand dollars for  the  period  January
 first,  two  thousand  eleven  through  March thirty-first, two thousand
 eleven, one million seven hundred thousand  dollars  each  state  fiscal
 year for the period April first, two thousand eleven through March thir-
 ty-first,  two  thousand  fourteen, up to one million seven hundred five
 thousand dollars each state fiscal year for the period April first,  two
 thousand  fourteen  through  March thirty-first, two thousand seventeen,
 and up to one million seven hundred five  thousand  dollars  each  state
 fiscal  year  for the period April first, two thousand seventeen through
 March thirty-first, two thousand twenty, shall be set aside and reserved
 by the commissioner from the  regional  pools  established  pursuant  to
 subdivision  two  of this section and shall be available for purposes of
 physician AND DENTIST loan repayment in accordance with subdivision  ten
 of this section. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this section,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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