Expands the Doctors Across New York program to include dentists.
Expands the Doctors Across New York program to include dentists.
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2026-2027 state fiscal year; repeals the state Medicaid spending cap and related processes (Part A); extends certain health provisions (Part B); extends certain provisions of law relating to the health care reform act; extends provisions relating to the distribution of pool allocations and graduate medical education; extends provisions relating to health care initiative pool distributions; extends payment provisions for general hospitals; extends provisions relating to assessments on covered lives (Part C); relates to insurance coverage for medical malpractice paid for by funds from the hospital excess liability pool; extends portions of the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 (Part D); makes technical corrections and updates (Part F); relates to automated external defibrillators (Part G); enhances requirements for notices of material transactions (Part H); establishes an office of the state medical indemnity fund ombudsperson and a medical indemnity fund advisory panel to advocate for, assist and represent the interests of qualified plaintiffs; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to payments from the New York state medical indemnity fund (Part I) relates to temporary health care services agencies and protecting individuals engaged to provide health care services by such agencies (Part J); relates to providing approval to operate a mobile integrated and community paramedicine program; extends authorization for the community-based paramedicine demonstration program; authorizes certified nurse practitioners and licensed physicians to prescribe and order a non-patient specific regimen for administering immunizations to an emergency medical services practitioner; extends hospital services outside the facility and into patients' residences (Part K); restores capital rate reductions for nursing homes; adjusts premiums for the Medicaid buy-in for working persons with disabilities (Part L); relates to the definition of healthcare services for purposes of the amount payable for certain services provided to certain eligible persons who are also beneficiaries under part B of title XVII of the federal social security act or are also qualified Medicare beneficiaries; extends the cooling off period for health maintenance organization plan contracts with hospitals from two months to one hundred twenty days (Part M); increases hospital, nursing home and certified home health agency fee-for-service reimbursement rates (Part O); directs the commissioners of the department of health, office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities, office of addiction services and supports, office of temporary and disability assistance, office of children and family services and the directors of the state office for the aging and office of victim services to establish a state fiscal year 2026-2027 targeted inflationary increase for projecting for the effects of inflation upon rates of payments, contracts, or any other form of reimbursement for certain programs and services; requires such commissioners and director to provide funding to support a 4% targeted inflationary increase for such programs and services (Part P); relates to integrated behavioral health services programs (Part Q); changes "substance use" to substance-related and addictive disorder claims for purposes of the insurance law and public health law (Part R); relates to minimum amounts of certain state aid to the city of New York (Part T); extends government rates for behavioral services and referencing the office of addiction services and supports (Part U); enacts the "New York affordable drug manufacturing act" to direct the commissioner of health to enter into partnerships to increase competition for generic prescription drugs (Part V); relates to establishing the "340B prescription drug anti-discrimination act"; prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers from discriminating against covered entities and New York state pharmacies based on participation in the drug discount program authorized by section 340B of the federal public health service act (Part W); establishes the New York state abortion clinical training program within the department of health for the purpose of training health care practitioners in the performance of abortion and related reproductive health care services; requires the commissioner of health to submit a report to the governor and the legislature (Part X); expands the purposes of the drug treatment and public education fund to include prevention and recovery programs; requires reporting to be made available on the office of addiction services and supports' website (Part Y); extends for two years the requirement for OPWDD to give a 90-day notice to the Senate, Assembly, and labor organizations of any closures or transfer of a state operated individualized residential alternative (Part Z); extends the care demonstration program (Part AA); makes permanent coverage for services provided by school-based health centers for medical assistance recipients (Part BB); establishes the "recovery ready workplace act" which provides for the certification of an employer to become a recovery ready workplace (Part CC); provides that for a substance use disorder outpatient treatment episode of care by a provider licensed, certified or otherwise authorized by the office of addiction services and supports, an insured shall only be responsible for a cost sharing fee not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars (Part DD); limits the reimbursement amount of certain overpayment of Medicaid claims where such overpayment was due to the provider's submission of records which were not in accordance with program requirements at the time but which were in accordance with requirements as of the date of the claim (Part EE); provides that any person may give consent for reproductive health care, including contraception and abortions, for themself and without providing a reason (Part FF); authorizes the commissioner of health to approve certain reimbursement rates for certain programs established by not-for-profit and public skilled nursing facilities in upstate New York nursing home regions that are designed to work collaboratively on efforts to improve nursing home efficiency, staffing, and quality of care (Part GG); provides that services to medical assistance recipients suffering from traumatic brain injuries or qualifying for nursing home diversion and transition services shall be provided outside of managed programs (Part HH); directs the department of health to annually report on food security trends (Part II); requires the office for the aging to make an annual report on the budget expenditures on behalf of the senior population of the state every April first (Part JJ); establishes a gender-affirming care access program to provide support and increase access to gender-affirming care including certain medical and surgical care (Part KK); requires the Medicaid inspector general to comply with standards relating to the audit and review of medical assistance program funds (Part LL); expands health care services provided by telehealth to include services delivered through a facility licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law that is eligible to be designated or has received a designation as a federally qualified health center, including those facilities that are also licensed under article thirty-one or article thirty-two of the mental hygiene law (Part MM).
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2026-2027 state fiscal year; extends provisions requiring the quarterly assessment of known and projected department of health state fund Medicaid expenditures (Part A); extends certain health provisions (Part B); extends certain provisions of law relating to the health care reform act; extends provisions relating to the distribution of pool allocations and graduate medical education; extends provisions relating to health care initiative pool distributions; extends payment provisions for general hospitals; and extends provisions relating to assessments on covered lives (Part C); relates to insurance coverage for medical malpractice paid for by funds from the hospital excess liability pool; extends portions of the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 (Part D); relates to temporary health care services agencies and protecting individuals engaged to provide health care services by such agencies (Part J); relates to capital rate reductions for nursing homes (Part L); clarifies Medicaid requirements for biomarker testing (Part M); relates to hospital and nursing home fee-for-service reimbursement rates (Part O); directs the commissioners of the office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities, office of addiction services and supports, office of temporary and disability assistance, office of children and family services and the director of the state office for the aging to establish a state fiscal year 2026-2027 targeted inflationary increase for projecting for the effects of inflation upon rates of payments, contracts, or any other form of reimbursement for certain programs and services; requires such commissioners and director to provide funding to support a 4.0% targeted inflationary increase for such programs and services (Part P); relates to the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to Medicaid management; removes certain provisions providing for lower minimum amounts of certain state aid for the city of New York than the rest of the state (Part T); extends provisions of law relating to general hospital reimbursement for annual rates for behavioral services; extends provisions of law relating to increasing Medicaid payments to providers through managed care organizations and providing equivalent fees through an ambulatory patient group methodology (Part U); ensures services provided in school-based health centers are not provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs (Part V); extends the effectiveness of the requirement that upon the closure or transfer of a state-operated individualized residential alternative (Part W); extends the care demonstration program (Part X); sunsets certain hospital capital rate add-on adjustments (Part Y); creates an essential plan contingency fund to maintain access to health care coverage for Essential Plan enrollees in the event that the federal government does not approve certain waiver submission necessary to make funds available by July 1, 2026, in the amount not to exceed $2,400,000,000 (Part Z).
Expands how applicants may qualify for a license to be a dentist to include postdoctoral specialty programs and advanced education programs in general dentistry.
Expands how applicants may qualify for a license to be a dentist to include postdoctoral specialty programs and advanced education programs in general dentistry.
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state education, labor, housing and family assistance budget for the 2026-2027 state fiscal year; relates to contracts for excellence, foundation aid, the homeless and foster count, renewable energy projects, zero-emissions school buses and to apportioning aid for universal prekindergarten; relates to reimbursement for the 2026-2027 school year and the maximum contract hours, withholding a portion of employment preparation education aid, and the effectiveness thereof; relates to the use of apportionments for the EXCEL program and the effectiveness thereof; relates to maximum class sizes for special classes for certain students with disabilities; provides for special apportionment for salary expenses; provides for special apportionment for public pension accruals; amends provisions relating to the apportionment amount for the Roosevelt union free school district; provides for set-asides from the state funds which certain districts are receiving from the total foundation aid; provides for support of public libraries; repeals certain provisions relating to the statewide universal full-day prekindergarten program (Part A); relates to evidence-based instructional practices in the subject of mathematics for students in kindergarten through grade five (Part B); relates to the eligibility of students enrolled in an approved program leading to a degree in a high demand field for the New York opportunity promise scholarship (Part C); allows for the chancellor of SUNY and CUNY to impose differential tuition rates on non-resident undergraduate and graduate students until the 2028-2029 academic year (Part E); relates to early childhood educator eligibility for the masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program (Part F); changes the name of the "New York state musical instrument revolving fund" to the "New York state music grant fund"; includes musical education in school districts and boards of cooperative educational services within not-for-profit musical entities incorporated in the state and organized for the purpose of the presentation of performing arts for the benefit of the public (Part G); extends provisions of law relating to restructuring financing for residential school placements (Part K); increases the standards of monthly need for aged, blind and disabled persons living in the community (Part L); utilizes reserves in the mortgage insurance fund for the neighborhood preservation program, the rural preservation program, the rural rental assistance program, and the New York state supportive housing program, the solutions to end homelessness program or the operational support for AIDS housing program (Part M); increases the number of land banks which can simultaneously exist in the state of New York from 35 to 45 (Part N); authorizes a tax abatement for alterations and improvements to multiple dwellings for purposes of preserving habitability in affordable housing (Part O); relates to establishing the crime of aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant (Part P); renumbers the disparate impact standard for housing and employment in the human rights law (Part Q); defines eligible multiple dwelling under the affordable New York housing program; includes a multiple dwelling that is located on a parcel of land which was part of a tract of land for which a special permit for a large scale general development was approved via the uniform land use review procedure on or before June 15, 2022, and such tract contains a multiple dwelling for which the commencement date is after December 31, 2015 and on or before June 15, 2022 and complies with certain affordability options (Part R).
Expands the small business mentoring program to include contracts for construction or related services.
Expands the small business mentoring program to include contracts for construction or related services.
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state education, labor, housing and family assistance budget for the 2026-2027 state fiscal year; relates to contracts for excellence, foundation aid, and to apportioning aid for universal prekindergarten; relates to the apportionment of moneys for school aid; relates to purchase of food products from NY state farmers, growers, producers or processors; relates to reimbursement for the 2026-2027 school year and the maximum contract hours, withholding a portion of employment preparation education aid, and the effectiveness thereof; relates to the use of apportionments for the EXCEL program and the effectiveness thereof; relates to maximum class sizes for special classes for certain students with disabilities; relates to the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to state aid to school districts and the appropriation of funds for the support of government; provides for special apportionment for salary expenses; provides for special apportionment for public pension accruals; provides for set-asides from the state funds which certain districts are receiving from the total foundation aid; provides for apportionment for salary expenses for the Roosevelt union free school district; provides for support of public libraries; repeals certain provisions relating to the statewide universal full-day prekindergarten program (Part A); relates to evidence-based instructional practices in the subject of mathematics for students in kindergarten through grade five (Part B); relates to the eligibility of students enrolled in an approved program leading to a degree in high demand field for the New York opportunity promise scholarship (Part C); extends the authorization for differential tuition rates for non-residents at SUNY and CUNY schools (Part E); relates to early childhood educator eligibility for the masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program (Part F); changes the name of the New York state musical instrument revolving fund to the New York state music grant fund; removes provisions of law relating to the loan, lease and purchase of musical instruments and other related property and equipment and the requirement that the state council on the arts provide a report to the governor and certain members of the legislature containing guidelines and amendments established by the state council on the arts and a complete financial statement including, but not limited to, monies allocated, collected, transferred or otherwise paid or credited to the fund (Part G); increases the standards of monthly need for aged, blind and disabled persons living in the community (Part L); utilizes reserves in the mortgage insurance fund for the neighborhood preservation program, the rural preservation program, the rural rental assistance program, and the New York state supportive housing program, the solutions to end homelessness program or the operational support for AIDS housing program (Part M); increases the number of land banks which can simultaneously exist in the state of New York from 35 to 45 (Part N); establishes the homeowner protection program; provides that the department of law shall establish the homeowner protection program to ensure the availability of free housing counseling and legal services to homeowners for the purposes of mitigating threats to homeownership; provides that the department of law shall provide grants to eligible not-for-profit housing counseling organizations and legal services organizations to provide services under the program (Part Q); makes New York city eligible to receive state funding to support capital expenses for raise the age (Part R); requires the office of children and family services to utilize a cost estimation model when determining the actual cost providers incur when providing child care; requires the office to prepare a report detailing such (Part S); prohibits requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage to be eligible for child care assistance (Part T); relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection (Part U); increases the income threshold for excelsior scholarship (Part V); expands eligibility for tuition assistance program awards by increasing both the income eligibility and the reduction of the base amount (Part W); requires the governor to submit five-year capital plans for SUNY and CUNY senior colleges to the legislature as part of the annual budget (Part X); permits tuition assistance program awards for graduate students (Part Y); enacts the New York reinvests in student educational supports program (Part Z); provides student loan forgiveness for district attorneys and indigent legal services (Part AA).