Senate Bill S4793

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants for certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions/diseases

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee


  • 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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2023-S4793 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2424, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S6442
2015-2016: S777
2017-2018: S1216
2019-2020: S932
2021-2022: S1169

2023-S4793 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants to eligible applicants to provide certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions or diseases.

2023-S4793 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4793 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4793
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 14, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, SEPULVEDA -- 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 establishing the
   clinical trial access 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
 2424 to read as follows:
   § 2424. CLINICAL TRIAL ACCESS AND EDUCATION FUND. 1. DEFINITIONS.  FOR
 THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOW-
 ING MEANINGS:
   A. "ELIGIBLE APPLICANT" MEANS (I) A MEDICAL  SCHOOL  THAT  SPONSORS  A
 CLINICAL  TRIAL,  (II) A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WITH EXPERIENCE AND
 EXPERTISE WORKING  WITH  PATIENTS  WITH  LIFE-THREATENING  OR  DISABLING
 CONDITIONS OR DISEASES, (III) A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER ORGANIZATION, ASSO-
 CIATION  OR  SOCIETY, (IV) A GENERAL HOSPITAL DEFINED IN ARTICLE TWENTY-
 EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER, (V) A COUNTY OR CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, OR (VI) A
 MUNICIPALITY.
   B. "CLINICAL TRIAL" SHALL HAVE THE  SAME  MEANING  AS  IN  SUBDIVISION
 TWO-B OF SECTION FORTY-NINE HUNDRED OF THIS CHAPTER.
   C.  "ANCILLARY  COSTS"  MEANS COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICIPATION IN A
 CLINICAL TRIAL, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO COSTS FOR:
   (I) TRAVEL;
   (II) LODGING;
   (III) PARKING AND TOLLS;
   (IV) A TRAVEL COMPANION TO  ASSIST  PATIENTS  WHO  ARE  ELDERLY,  VERY
 YOUNG, OR TOO ILL TO TRAVEL ALONE; AND
   (V)  OTHER COSTS CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE JOINTLY BY THE DEPARTMENT, THE
 SERVICE PROVIDING ORGANIZATION AND THE TRIAL SITE.
   2. ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.  THERE  IS  HEREBY  ESTABLISHED  WITHIN  THE
 DEPARTMENT A CLINICAL TRIAL ACCESS AND EDUCATION FUND. SUBJECT TO APPRO-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08047-01-3
              

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