NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8522
SPONSOR: Paulin TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public health
law relating to municipal limited health care service facilities, as
proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6219 and A. 2400, in relation
to the effectiveness thereof
PURPOSE:
To make changes reflecting the length of time it will take to develop
regulations related to municipal limited health care service facilities.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This bill amends Chapter 740 of the Laws of 2023 by providing the
Department of Health with two years to develop regulations related to
municipal limited health care service facilities.
JUSTIFICATION:
Local health departments operate clinics to provide specified clinical
public, health services, such as tuberculosis, sexually transmitted
disease and immunization clinics. Currently, these clinics are subject
to the full range of requirements Imposed on, hospitals and other full
service diagnostic and treatment centers under Article 28 of the Public
Health Law. To require compliance with these stringent requirements
places unnecessary and crippling burdens on the limited service public
health clinics operated by local health departments, threatening the
ability of the local health departments to maintain these limited
service clinics. This bill will maintain the requirement for the commis-
sioner of health to develop a regulatory framework that makes sense for
limited service public health clinics and permit their continued opera-
tion so that .vital public health services may continue to be provided.
To reflect the Department of Health's estimated timeline for the regula-
tory and administrative process, the bill provides two years for the
regulations to take effect, provided that actions necessary to implement
this regulatory relief can take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
BUDGET IMPLICATIONS:
None noted.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8522
IN ASSEMBLY
January 5, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public health
law relating to municipal limited health care service facilities, as
proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6219 and A. 2400, in relation
to the effectiveness thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the
2 public health law relating to municipal limited health care service
3 facilities, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6219 and A.
4 2400, is amended to read as follows:
5 § 2. This act shall take effect [immediately] two years after it shall
6 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
7 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
8 of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made
9 and completed on or before such effective date.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05214-02-4
