Assembly Bill A7179

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Expands the Doctors Across New York program to include dentists

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A7179 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5210
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2807-m, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A2719, S2190
2015-2016: A3747, S3020
2017-2018: A5279, S3939
2019-2020: A3977, S954, S4867
2021-2022: A7345, S4520
2023-2024: A1454, S4334

2011-A7179 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the Doctors Across New York program to include dentists.

2011-A7179 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7179

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 14, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to expanding the
  Doctors Across New York program to include dentists

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph (d) of subdivision 5-a of section 2807-m of the
public health law, as amended by section 26 of part C of chapter  59  of
the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  (d) Physician AND/OR DENTIST loan repayment program.  One million nine
hundred  sixty  thousand dollars for the period January first, two thou-
sand eight  through  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand  eight,  one
million  nine  hundred  sixty  thousand  dollars  for the period January
first, two thousand nine through  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand
nine,  one  million  nine  hundred sixty thousand dollars for the period
January first, two thousand ten through December thirty-first, two thou-
sand ten, four hundred ninety thousand dollars for  the  period  January
first,  two  thousand  eleven  through  March thirty-first, two thousand
eleven, and one million seven hundred thousand dollars each state fiscal
year for the period April first, two thousand eleven through March thir-
ty-first, two thousand fourteen, shall be set aside and reserved by  the
commissioner from the regional pools established pursuant to subdivision
two  of  this  section  and shall be available for purposes of physician
AND/OR DENTIST loan repayment in accordance with subdivision ten of this
section. Such funding shall be allocated regionally  with  one-third  of
available funds going to New York city and two-thirds of available funds
going  to  the rest of the state and shall be distributed in a manner to
be determined by the commissioner as follows:
  (i) Funding shall first be awarded to repay loans of up to twenty-five
physicians AND/OR DENTISTS who train in primary care or specialty tracks
in teaching general hospitals, and who enter and remain in primary  care

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10764-01-1
              

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