New York A 4697: Provides for a residency program initiative to service medically underserved areas; appropriation

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A04697 Summary:

BILL NOA04697 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORHunter

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COSPNSRBarclay

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §2807-mm, Pub Health L

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Directs the department of health to develop and implement a residency program initiative to service medically underserved areas; makes an appropriation therefor.

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BILL NOA04697 

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02/04/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 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.
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 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 h