Assembly Bill A7592

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to excluding the five New York state veterans homes from certain assessments

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A7592 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7642
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2807-d, Pub Health L

2025-A7592 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes the five state-run veterans homes from assessments on their gross receipts received from all patient care services and other operating income; directs the Commissioner of Health to apply to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for any necessary waivers pursuant to federal law and regulation.

2025-A7592 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7592
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES, KASSAY -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to excluding the five
   New York state veterans homes from certain assessments
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 1 of section 2807-d of the
 public health law, as amended by chapter 41 of the laws of 1992, subpar-
 agraph (i) as amended by chapter 639 of the laws of 1996, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   (b)  Subject  to the provisions of subdivision twelve of this section,
 the following categories of hospitals shall not be  charged  assessments
 pursuant  to  this section: (i) voluntary nonprofit and private proprie-
 tary general hospitals which qualify for distributions made  in  accord-
 ance  with paragraph (c) of subdivision nineteen of section twenty-eight
 hundred seven-c of this article, or for assessments  during  the  period
 January  first,  nineteen  hundred ninety-seven through December thirty-
 first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven  voluntary  nonprofit  and  private
 proprietary  general hospitals which qualified for distributions made in
 accordance with paragraph (c) of subdivision nineteen of  section  twen-
 ty-eight  hundred  seven-c  of this article as of December thirty-first,
 nineteen hundred ninety-five; (ii) voluntary nonprofit hospitals totally
 financed by charitable contributions or by the income thereon  dedicated
 to  free care of low income patients; [and] (iii) any facility dedicated
 solely to the care of police, firefighters, volunteer firefighters,  and
 emergency  service personnel; AND ALL FIVE NEW YORK STATE VETERANS HOMES
 INCLUDING THE NEW YORK STATE VETERANS HOME AT OXFORD, THE NEW YORK STATE
 VETERANS HOME AT MONTROSE, THE NEW YORK STATE VETERANS HOME AT  BATAVIA,
 THE  NEW  YORK  STATE  VETERANS HOME AT SAINT ALBANS AND THE LONG ISLAND
 STATE VETERANS HOME AT STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY, THAT CARE  FOR  HONORABLY

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10844-02-5
 A. 7592                             2

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