New York Assembly Bill A04697 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4697 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to developing and implementing a residency program initiative to service medically underserved areas; and making an appropriation therefor The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 2807-mm to read as follows: 3 § 2807-mm. Resident program initiative to service medically under- 4 served areas. 1. The department shall develop and implement a residency 5 program initiative for physicians who agree to work in medically under- 6 served areas in New York state as designated by the commissioner as 7 having a shortage of physicians in certain areas. This initiative will 8 fund fifty residency positions. 9 2. The physician applicant must: 10 (a) complete a residency program initiative application, as developed 11 by the department; and 12 (b) have entered the national resident matching program and have 13 failed to match; and 14 (c) be a resident of New York state; and 15 (d) have graduated from a New York state accredited medical school and 16 have passed the United States medical licensing examination steps 1 and 17 2; or 18 (e) be certified by the education commission for foreign medical grad- 19 uates. 20 3. New York state accredited residency programs must complete a resi- 21 dency program participation application, as developed by the department. 22 4. In order for a New York state accredited residency program to be 23 approved it must be either a teaching hospital or have teaching hospital 24 oversight and be licensed by the department. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03947-01-5 
 A. 4697 2 1 5. Residency positions funded under this program shall be awarded to 2 interested hospitals on a competitive basis pursuant to a request for 3 proposal or request for application process. 4 6. The department will match physician applicants with approved 5 medical residency programs. 6 7. Upon acceptance to an approved medical residency program the physi- 7 cian applicant must sign a contract with the state whereby the physician 8 applicant agrees to work in New York state in a medically underserved 9 area at the completion of their residency for a minimum of five years. 10 The location must be approved by the department and must accept medicaid 11 and medicare. The physician applicant shall be responsible to repay the 12 department for the cost of their residency should they either fail to 13 complete the residency or the subsequent service requirement. The 14 commissioner shall be given the power to waive or modify the repayment 15 requirement in cases where there is a compelling need or hardship. 16 § 2. The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000), or so much thereof 17 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of health 18 from any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the credit 19 of the state purposes account not otherwise appropriated for the 20 purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such sum shall be 21 payable on the audit and warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers 22 certified or approved by the commissioner of health, or such commission- 23 er's duly designated representative in the manner provided by law. 24 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 25 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 26 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 27 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 28 completed on or before such effective date.