Assembly Bill A3279C

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes a reproductive health services training and education grant program

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2023-A3279 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3060
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2599-bb-2, Pub Health L

2023-A3279 - Summary

Establishes a reproductive health services training and education grant program to ensure health care providers receive adequate training in abortion care.

2023-A3279 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3279
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and  the  state  finance  law,  in
   relation to establishing a reproductive health services training grant
   program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 2807-nn to read as follows:
   §  2807-NN.  REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH TRAINING AND EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM.
 1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANT" MEANS  AN  INTERN  OR
 RESIDENT  WHO  IS  EMPLOYED  BY  A  HOSPITAL OR OTHERWISE ENROLLED IN AN
 ACCREDITED GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM.
   2. THE COMMISSIONER, SHALL ESTABLISH A  REPRODUCTIVE  HEALTH  SERVICES
 TRAINING  AND  EDUCATION  GRANT  PROGRAM  FOR  ELIGIBLE  PARTICIPANTS AS
 DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.  SUCH  GRANT  PROGRAM  SHALL
 CONSIST  OF  TWO  TO  SIX  WEEKS OF CLINICAL TRAINING IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION STANDARDS FOR CLIN-
 ICAL TRAINING IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ABORTION  AND  RELATED  REPRODUCTIVE
 HEALTH  SERVICES  AND  SHALL  OTHERWISE  MEET  PROFESSIONALLY RECOGNIZED
 TRAINING STANDARDS AS DEFINED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   3. THE COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED,  WITHIN  AMOUNTS  APPROPRIATED  FOR
 SUCH  PURPOSE  TO  MAKE GRANTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SUBDIVISION. SUCH
 GRANTS MAY BE USED FOR ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY RECRUITMENT AND  DEVELOP-
 MENT,  START-UP  COSTS  AND  COSTS INCURRED TEACHING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
 CARE  IN  HOSPITAL-BASED  PROGRAMS  OR  NON-HOSPITAL-BASED  CARE  SITES,
 INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO, PERSONNEL, ADMINISTRATION AND TRAINEE
 RELATED EXPENSES AND OTHER EXPENSES JUDGED REASONABLE AND  NECESSARY  BY
 THE  COMMISSIONER.  AS  USED IN THIS SECTION, "TRAINEE RELATED EXPENSES"
 SHALL INCLUDE A TRAVEL AND HOUSING STIPEND PAID TO EACH INTERN OR  RESI-
 DENT IF DEEMED NECESSARY.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04346-01-3
              

co-Sponsors

2023-A3279A - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3060
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2599-bb-2, Pub Health L

2023-A3279A - Summary

Establishes a reproductive health services training and education grant program to ensure health care providers receive adequate training in abortion care.

2023-A3279A - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3279--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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 -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Health
   --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
   and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
   reproductive  health services training grant program; and to amend the
   state finance law, in relation to establishing the reproductive health
   training and education fund
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2807-nn to read as follows:
   § 2807-NN. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH TRAINING AND EDUCATION  GRANT  PROGRAM.
 1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION:
   (A)  "ELIGIBLE  PARTICIPANT"  MEANS  ANY  LICENSEE FOR WHOM PERFORMING
 ABORTION CARE IS WITHIN THEIR SCOPE OF PRACTICE AND IS AUTHORIZED BY LAW
 TO PRACTICE IN THIS STATE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO A PHYSICIAN,  A
 NURSE  PRACTITIONER,  LICENSED  MIDWIFE, OR A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, OR AN
 INTERN OR RESIDENT WHO IS EMPLOYED BY A HOSPITAL OR  OTHERWISE  ENROLLED
 IN AN ACCREDITED GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM;
   (B)  "PROGRAM"  SHALL  MEAN A REPRODUCTIVE   HEALTH  SERVICES TRAINING
 AND EDUCATION  GRANT PROGRAM; AND
   (C) "ELIGIBLE  PROVIDERS"  SHALL  MEAN  COMMUNITY-BASED  ORGANIZATIONS
 PROVIDING  REPRODUCTIVE  HEALTH  CARE,  HOSPITAL-BASED  SITES  PROVIDING
 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE, CONTINUING EDUCATION  PROGRAMS  FOR  QUALIFIED
 PROVIDERS   THROUGH  PROFESSIONAL  ASSOCIATIONS  OR  CLINICAL  EDUCATION
 PROGRAMS.
   2. THE COMMISSIONER, SHALL ESTABLISH A  REPRODUCTIVE  HEALTH  SERVICES
 TRAINING  AND  EDUCATION  GRANT  PROGRAM  FOR  ELIGIBLE  PARTICIPANTS TO
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04346-03-3
              

co-Sponsors

2023-A3279B - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3060
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2599-bb-2, Pub Health L

2023-A3279B - Summary

Establishes a reproductive health services training and education grant program to ensure health care providers receive adequate training in abortion care.

2023-A3279B - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3279--B
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2807-nn to read as follows:
   § 2807-NN. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES TRAINING AND  EDUCATION  GRANT
 PROGRAM. 1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION:
   (A) "ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANT" INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO A PHYSICIAN,
 NURSE PRACTITIONER, MIDWIFE, OR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, FOR WHOM PERFORMING
 ABORTION CARE IS WITHIN THEIR SCOPE OF PRACTICE OR AN INTERN OR RESIDENT
 WHO  IS  EMPLOYED  BY  A HOSPITAL OR OTHERWISE ENROLLED IN AN ACCREDITED
 GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM;
   (B) "PROGRAM" SHALL MEAN A REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES  TRAINING  AND
 EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM; AND
   (C)  "ELIGIBLE  PROVIDERS"  SHALL  MEAN  COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
 PROVIDING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE, CONTINUING  EDUCATION  PROGRAMS  FOR
 QUALIFIED PROVIDERS THROUGH PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OR CLINICAL EDUCA-
 TION PROGRAMS.
   2.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  ESTABLISH A REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES
 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.
                                                            LBD04346-08-4
              

co-Sponsors

2023-A3279C (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3060
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2599-bb-2, Pub Health L

2023-A3279C (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a reproductive health services training and education grant program to ensure health care providers receive adequate training in abortion care.

2023-A3279C (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3279--C
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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, ARDILA, LEE
   -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee -- 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  commit-
   tee  --  again  reported  from said committee with amendments, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health 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:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 2599-bb-2 to read as follows:
   § 2599-BB-2. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES TRAINING AND EDUCATION GRANT
 PROGRAM. 1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION:
   (A)  "ELIGIBLE  PARTICIPANT"  SHALL  MEAN ANY HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER
 AUTHORIZED TO PERFORM ABORTION  CARE  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  TWENTY-FIVE
 HUNDRED  NINETY-NINE-BB  OF THIS ARTICLE OR AN INTERN OR RESIDENT WHO IS
 EMPLOYED BY A HOSPITAL OR OTHERWISE ENROLLED IN AN  ACCREDITED  GRADUATE
 MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM;
   (B)  "PROGRAM"  SHALL MEAN A REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES TRAINING AND
 EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM;
   (C) "PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR" SHALL MEAN  COMMUNITY-BASED  ORGANIZATIONS
 PROVIDING  REPRODUCTIVE  HEALTH  CARE, CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR
 QUALIFIED PROVIDERS THROUGH PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OR CLINICAL EDUCA-
 TION PROGRAMS THAT MEET PROFESSIONALLY  RECOGNIZED  TRAINING  STANDARDS,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04346-11-4
 A. 3279--C                          2
              

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