New York S 776: Relates to standards for for-profit higher education institutions

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S00776 Summary:

BILL NOS00776 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01476

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SPONSORHARCKHAM

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2831, Pub Health L; amd §2, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.5969-A & A.3674-A)

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Defines medically fragile young adults as individuals who meet the definition of children with medical fragility, but for the fact such individuals are aged between twenty-one and thirty-five years old.

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BILL NOS00776 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/13/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.50

02/05/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A1476

&nbspA01476 AMEND= Pretlow

&nbsp01/09/2025referred to health

&nbsp01/14/2025reported referred to rules

&nbsp01/14/2025reported 

&nbsp01/14/2025rules report cal.34

&nbsp01/14/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.34

&nbsp01/27/2025passed assembly

&nbsp01/27/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp01/27/2025REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp02/05/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S776

&nbsp02/05/20253RD READING CAL.50

&nbsp02/05/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp02/05/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp02/12/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp02/14/2025signed chap.49

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 776

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to medically fragile
 young adults; to amend a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the
 public health law relating to medically fragile young adults and
 pediatric specialized nursing facilities, as proposed in legislative
 bills numbers S. 5969-A and A. 3674-A, in relation to the effective-
 ness thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Section 2831 of the public health law, as added by a chap-
 2 ter of the laws of 2024 amending the public health law relating to
 3 medically fragile young adults and pediatric specialized nursing facili-
 4 ties, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5969-A and A. 3674-A,
 5 is amended to read as follows:
 6 § 2831. Medically fragile young adults. 1. For purposes of this
 7 section, "medically fragile young adults" shall [have the same meaning
 8 as the term "medically fragile children" as set forth in subdivision
 9 three-a of section thirty-six hundred fourteen of this chapter and shall
 10 include medically fragile young adults who currently reside at a pedia-
 11 tric specialized nursing facility and are over twenty-one years of age]
 12 mean individuals who meet the definition of children with medical
 13 fragility, but for the fact such individuals are aged between twenty-one
 14 and thirty-five years old.
 15 2. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations to allow
 16 medically fragile young adults who reside in pediatric specialized nurs-
 17 ing facilities to remain at such facilities [after reaching the age of
 18 twenty-one and until they reach the age of thirty-six]. Unless a higher
 19 reimbursement rate is expressly authorized by the department, the
 20 reimbursement rate and methodology for such medically fragile young

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02931-01-5

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 1 adults shall remain the same as it was prior to reaching age twenty-one
 2 and shall include a daily per diem rate and coverage for bed holds.
 3 Medicaid reimbursement for this population for reserved beds due to
 4 hospitalization and for therapeutic and hospice leaves of absence must
 5 remain at one hundred percent of the Medicaid rate of medically fragile
 6 children, without any daily limit for this population.
 7 3. This section shall be effective if, and as long as, federal finan-
 8 cial participation is available therefor.
 9 § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public
 10 health law relating to medically fragile young adults and pediatric
 11 specialized nursing facilities, as propose