New York A 4024: Authorizes the delivery of telehealth services in schools by licensed providers

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A04024 Summary:

BILL NOA04024 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02077

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSRKelles

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §414, Ed L

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Authorizes the delivery of telehealth services in schools by licensed providers.

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BILL NOA04024 

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01/30/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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Go to topA04024 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4024

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing for the
 delivery of telehealth services in schools by licensed providers

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (j) of subdivision 1 of section 414 of the educa-
 2 tion law, as added by chapter 513 of the laws of 2005, subparagraph (i)
 3 as amended by chapter 672 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 4 follows:
 5 (j) For licensed school-based health, dental or mental health clinics
 6 and telehealth providers. (i) For the purposes of this subdivision, the
 7 term "licensed school-based health, dental or mental health clinic and
 8 telehealth provider" means a clinic or telehealth provider, as defined
 9 in subdivision two of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-nine-cc of the
 10 public health law, that is located in, or provide services to, a school
 11 facility of a school district [or], board of cooperative educational
 12 services, or charter school, is operated by an entity other than the
 13 school district [or], board of cooperative educational services, or
 14 charter school and will provide health, dental or mental health services
 15 during school hours and/or non-school hours to school-age and preschool
 16 children, and that is: (1) a health clinic approved under the provisions
 17 of chapter one hundred ninety-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred
 18 seventy-eight; or (2) another school-based health or dental clinic
 19 licensed by the department of health pursuant to article twenty-eight of
 20 the public health law; or (3) a school-based mental health clinic
 21 licensed or approved by the office of mental health pursuant to article
 22 thirty-one of the mental hygiene law; or (4) a school-based mental
 23 health clinic licensed by the office for people with developmental disa-
 24 bilities pursuant to article sixteen of the mental hygiene law; or (5) a
 25 telehealth provider delivering health care services by means of tele-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05530-01-5

 A. 4024 2

 1 health in accordance with article twenty-nine-G of the public health
 2 law. The commissioner shall develop regulations for services provided
 3 by a telehealth provider delivering health care services by means of
 4 telehealth pursuant to this paragraph, in consultation with the commis-
 5 sioners of health, mental health, and the office for people with devel-
 6 opmental disabilities. Such regulations shall, at a minimum, include
 7 the requirements for licensure of telehealth providers, billing and
 8 payment responsibilities for telehealth providers, requirements for
 9 necessary space and appropriate technology to ensure patient privacy,
 10 staffing requirements, appropriate scope of services, and shall be in
 11 compliance with all applicable state and federal law. Such regulations
 12 shall ensure that telehealth services supplement not supplant school
 13 nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and school counse-
 14 lors.
 15 (ii) Health professionals who provide services [in licensed school-
 16 based health, dental or mental health clinics] pursuant to this para-
 17 graph shall be duly licensed pursuant to the provisions of title eight
 18 of this chapter unless otherwise exempted by law and shall be authorized
 19 to provide such services to the extent permitted by their respective
 20 practice acts.
 21 (iii) Except where otherwise authorized by la