NY State Senate Bill S4336A

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Jan 05, 2022	referred to health returned to senate died in assembly
Feb 22, 2021	referred to health delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.370 reported and committed to rules
Feb 17, 2021	print number 4336a
Feb 17, 2021	amend and recommit to health
Feb 03, 2021	referred to health

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S4336 - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §206, Pub Health L

S4336 - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a direct patient care ratio reporting and rebate requirement for nursing homes.

S4336 - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S4336

SPONSOR: RIVERA
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the
commissioner of health to establish a direct patient care ratio report-
ing and rebate requirement for nursing homes

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of the bill is to direct the Commissioner of Health to
establish direct care ratio reporting and rebates by nursing homes to
ensure that facilities who have been authorized to provide care to the
frail, elderly and disabled are investing an appropriate amount of
revenue into the direct care of residents and not excessively profiting
at the expense of quality and direct care.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill amends section 206 of the public health law by

adding a new subdivision 29 directing the Commissioner to establish a
direct care ratio reporting and rebate requirement by July 1, 2021
pursuant to which nursing homes shall be required to report total reven-
ues collected, along with the portion of revenues that are expended on
direct care staff wages, other staff wages, taxes, administrative costs
including management agreement and staffing agency contracts, invest-
ments in improvements to the facilities' equipment and physical plant,
profits and any other factors identified by the Commissioner. The ratio
shall require seventy percent or such higher percentage as the commis-
sioner may establish by regulation of a facilities' aggregate revenue in
a fiscal year to be expended on the direct care of residents.

The Commissioner shall have the authority to conducts financial audits
necessary to ensure the accuracy of information provided. When the
direct care ratio fails to substantially comply with the ratio require-
ment established pursuant to this subsection, the nursing home shall
issue a pro rata dividend or credit to all individuals and entities
making payments to the nursing home for resident services to ensure they
have met the mandatory ratio for the previous calendar year All divi-
dends and credits shall be distributed by June 30th of the year follow-
ing the calendar year in which the ratio requirements were not satis-
fied.

Section 2 of the bill provides an effective date

 
JUSTIFICATION:

During the August 2020 Joint Legislative hearings on COVID-19 in resi-
dential health care facilities, legislators and the public heard heart-
breaking testimony about this virus ravaging facilities, with both resi-
dents and staff contracting the virus and in far too many cases,
succumbing to it. While many facilities and staff worked to do their
best with limited resources in response to the pandemic, among the
testimony were repeated concerns of facilities with poor quality of care
and understaffed homes even before the virus. Often these same facili-
ties, or the operators, managers or investors of the facilities, are
making large profits at the expense of residents and staff. This bill
seeks to ensure that New York State's nursing homes, which all rely on
public funding through Medicaid and Medicare, are not driven to exces-
sive profits at the expense of the care they are paid to provide, by
establishing a Direct Care Ratio (DCR).

For the past decade New York State has had a similar system for health
insurers. The state requires regulated health insurers to provide a
minimum amount of revenues to pay for actual care, also referred to as
the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR). Shortly after New York adopted an MLR
(Chapter 107 of 2010), the Federal Affordable Care Act also adopted an
MLR for health insurers. This MLR requirement ensures that every year
health insurers report the actual loss ratio for the previous calendar
year to the Superintendent of the Department of Financial Services based
on the ratio of claims to premiums. If the MLR is not met, the Super-
intendent can direct the insurer to take corrective actions which may
include the submission of a rate filing to reduce future premiums, or to
issue dividends, premium refunds or credits, or any combination of
these. The Superintendent may also use the MLR in reviewing a proposed
premium rate increase and determine it should be modified or disap-
proved.

In response to COVID-19 in nursing homes, the New Jersey Department of
Health engaged Manatt Health to undertake an assessment and make recom-
mendations to improve the long-term care system. In June Manatt Health
released its report "Recommendations to Strengthen the Resilience of New
Jersey's Nursing Homes in the Wake of COVID-19".  Creating a DCR for
nursing homes was one of the report's recommendations and New Jersey
quickly adopted a DCR by statute in September, 2020. New York must
quickly follow New Jersey's lead.

Establishing a DCR for nursing homes, and requiring nursing homes to
rebate excessive profits back to the residents and public health care
systems that pay them, will provide a tool to make sure that profits and
administrative costs are not excessively high at the expense of care for
the frail, elderly and disabled. Like the state's MLR for health insur-
ers a DCR for nursing homes makes clear that excessive profits at the
expense of caring for people's health is no longer tolerated and instead
encourages that funding be used to support good quality care and appro-
priate staffing levels.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to state as the intent is not to have rebates paid, but to have
nursing homes reinvest excess profits into providing better quality and
care.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S4336 - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4336
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
   commissioner  of  health  to  establish  a  direct  patient care ratio
   reporting and rebate requirement for nursing homes

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 29 to read as follows:
   29.  (A)  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH A DIRECT PATIENT CARE RATIO
 REPORTING AND REBATE REQUIREMENT, WHICH SHALL TAKE EFFECT NO LATER  THAN
 JULY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-ONE, PURSUANT TO WHICH NURSING HOMES
 SHALL  BE  REQUIRED  TO  REPORT  TO  THE  COMMISSIONER  TOTAL   REVENUES
 COLLECTED,  ALONG  WITH  THE  PORTION  OF  REVENUES THAT ARE EXPENDED ON
 DIRECT PATIENT CARE, STAFF WAGES, OTHER STAFF WAGES, TAXES,  ADMINISTRA-
 TIVE COSTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT AND STAFF-
 ING  AGENCY  CONTRACTS, INVESTMENTS IN IMPROVEMENTS TO THE STRUCTURE AND
 EQUIPMENT OF THE FACILITY, PROFITS, AND ANY OTHER FACTORS AS THE COMMIS-
 SIONER SHALL REQUIRE.
   (B) THE DIRECT PATIENT CARE RATIO SHALL  REQUIRE  SEVENTY  PERCENT  OR
 SUCH  HIGHER  PERCENTAGE AS THE COMMISSIONER MAY ESTABLISH BY REGULATION
 OF A FACILITY'S AGGREGATE REVENUE IN A FISCAL YEAR TO BE EXPENDED ON THE
 DIRECT CARE OF RESIDENTS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DETERMINE WHICH  COMPO-
 NENTS  OF THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS SHALL BE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE DIRECT
 PATIENT CARE RATIO, BUT  SHALL  NOT  INCLUDE  ADMINISTRATIVE  COSTS  AND
 PROFITS.  THE  COMMISSIONER  MAY  ADJUST  THE  COMPONENTS  OF THE DIRECT
 PATIENT CARE RATIO AS APPROPRIATE BASED ON CURRENT FINANCIAL INFORMATION
 REPORTED BY NURSING HOMES AND OVERALL PERFORMANCE BY  THE  NURSING  HOME
 RELATED TO PATIENT SAFETY, DIRECT PATIENT CARE STAFF RATIOS, AND QUALITY
 OF CARE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02777-03-1

 S. 4336                             2
 
   (C) THE COMMISSIONER, OR AN ENTITY DESIGNATED BY THE COMMISSIONER, MAY
 CONDUCT AN AUDIT OF THE FINANCIAL INFORMATION REPORTED BY A NURSING HOME
 PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION  TO  ENSURE  THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION
 REPORTED AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  AS
 WELL  AS  TO  IDENTIFY  AND RECOVER ANY PAYMENTS THAT EXCEED THE ALLOWED
 COST RATIO FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND PROFITS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT  TO
 PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION. IN EACH CASE WHERE THE DIRECT PATIENT
 CARE  RATIO  FAILS  TO  SUBSTANTIALLY  COMPLY WITH THE RATIO REQUIREMENT
 ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION, THE NURSING HOME SHALL ISSUE A
 PRO RATA DIVIDEND OR CREDIT TO THE STATE  AND  TO  ALL  INDIVIDUALS  AND
 ENTITIES MAKING PAYMENTS TO THE NURSING HOME FOR RESIDENT SERVICES IN AN
 AMOUNT  SUFFICIENT  TO  ENSURE THAT THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT PAID FOR DIRECT
 PATIENT CARE STAFF  WAGES,  OTHER  STAFF  WAGES,  TAXES,  ADMINISTRATIVE
 COSTS, INVESTMENTS IN IMPROVEMENTS TO THE STRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT OF THE
 FACILITY,  PROFITS,  AND  SUCH  OTHER  FACTORS AS THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
 REQUIRE, PLUS THE AMOUNT OF THE DIVIDENDS AND CREDITS, EQUALS THE MANDA-
 TORY RATIO FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR.  THE  PRO  RATA  DIVIDEND  OR
 CREDIT SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE PERCENTAGE OF PAYMENTS MADE BY THE PAYOR TO
 THE  NURSING  HOME  OUT  OF  ALL  PAYMENTS  MADE TO THE NURSING HOME FOR
 SERVICES PROVIDED IN THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR FROM ALL PAYMENT  SOURC-
 ES.  ALL DIVIDENDS AND CREDITS SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED BY JUNE THIRTIETH OF
 THE YEAR FOLLOWING THE CALENDAR YEAR IN  WHICH  THE  RATIO  REQUIREMENTS
 WERE NOT SATISFIED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Co-Sponsors

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §206, Pub Health L

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a direct patient care ratio reporting and rebate requirement for nursing homes.

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S4336A

SPONSOR: RIVERA
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the
commissioner of health to establish a direct patient care ratio report-
ing and rebate requirement for nursing homes

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of the bill is to direct the Commissioner of Health to
establish direct care ratio reporting and rebates by nursing homes to
ensure that facilities who have been authorized to provide care to the
frail, elderly and disabled are investing an appropriate amount of
revenue into the direct care of residents and not excessively profiting
at the expense of quality and direct care.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill amends section 206 of the public health law by

adding a new subdivision 29 directing the Commissioner to establish a
direct care ratio reporting and rebate requirement by July 1, 2021
pursuant to which nursing homes shall be required to report total reven-
ues collected, along with the portion of revenues that are expended on
direct care staff wages, other staff wages, taxes, administrative costs
including management agreement and staffing agency contracts, invest-
ments in improvements to the facilities' equipment and physical plant,
profits and any other factors identified by the Commissioner. The ratio
shall require seventy percent or such higher percentage as the commis-
sioner may establish by regulation of a facilities' aggregate revenue in
a fiscal year to be expended on the direct care of residents.

The Commissioner shall have the authority to conducts financial audits
necessary to ensure the accuracy of information provided. When the
direct care ratio fails to substantially comply with the ratio require-
ment established pursuant to this subsection, the nursing home shall
issue a pro rata dividend or credit to all individuals and entities
making payments to the nursing home for resident services to ensure they
have met the mandatory ratio for the previous calendar year All divi-
dends and credits shall be distributed by June 30th of the year follow-
ing the calendar year in which the ratio requirements were not satis-
fied.

Section 2 of the bill provides an effective date

 
JUSTIFICATION:

During the August 2020 Joint Legislative hearings on COVID-19 in resi-
dential health care facilities, legislators and the public heard heart-
breaking testimony about this virus ravaging facilities, with both resi-
dents and staff contracting the virus and in far too many cases,
succumbing to it. While many facilities and staff worked to do their
best with limited resources in response to the pandemic, among the
testimony were repeated concerns of facilities with poor quality of care
and understaffed homes even before the virus. Often these same facili-
ties, or the operators, managers or investors of the facilities, are
making large profits at the expense of residents and staff. This bill
seeks to ensure that New York State's nursing homes, which all rely on
public funding through Medicaid and Medicare, are not driven to exces-
sive profits at the expense of the care they are paid to provide, by
establishing a Direct Care Ratio (DCR).

For the past decade New York State has had a similar system for health
insurers. The state requires regulated health insurers to provide a
minimum amount of revenues to pay for actual care, also referred to as
the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR). Shortly after New York adopted an MLR
(Chapter 107 of 2010), the Federal Affordable Care Act also adopted an
MLR for health insurers. This MLR requirement ensures that every year
health insurers report the actual loss ratio for the previous calendar
year to the Superintendent of the Department of Financial Services based
on the ratio of claims to premiums. If the MLR is not met, the Super-
intendent can direct the insurer to take corrective actions which may
include the submission of a rate filing to reduce future premiums, or to
issue dividends, premium refunds or credits, or any combination of
these. The Superintendent may also use the MLR in reviewing a proposed
premium rate increase and determine it should be modified or disap-
proved.

In response to COVID-19 in nursing homes, the New Jersey Department of
Health engaged Manatt Health to undertake an assessment and make recom-
mendations to improve the long-term care system. In June Manatt Health
released its report "Recommendations to Strengthen the Resilience of New
Jersey's Nursing Homes in the Wake of COVID-19".

Creating a DCR for nursing homes was one of the report's recommendations
and New Jersey quickly adopted a DCR by statute in September, 2020. New
York must quickly follow New Jersey's lead.  Establishing a DCR for
nursing homes, and requiring nursing homes to rebate excessive profits
back to the residents and public health care systems that pay them, will
provide a tool to make sure that profits and administrative costs are
not excessively high at the expense of care for the frail, elderly and
disabled. Like the state's MLR for health insurers a DCR for nursing
homes makes clear that excessive profits at the expense of caring for
people's health is no longer tolerated and instead encourages that fund-
ing be used to support good quality care and appropriate staffing
levels.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to state as the intent is not to have rebates paid, but to have
nursing homes reinvest excess profits into providing better quality and
care.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4336--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to directing the
   commissioner of health  to  establish  a  direct  patient  care  ratio
   reporting and rebate requirement for nursing homes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 29 to read as follows:
   29. (A) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH A DIRECT PATIENT  CARE  RATIO
 REPORTING  AND REBATE REQUIREMENT, WHICH SHALL TAKE EFFECT NO LATER THAN
 JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, PURSUANT  TO  WHICH  NURSING  HOMES
 SHALL   BE  REQUIRED  TO  REPORT  TO  THE  COMMISSIONER  TOTAL  REVENUES
 COLLECTED, ALONG WITH THE PORTION  OF  REVENUES  THAT  ARE  EXPENDED  ON
 DIRECT  PATIENT CARE, STAFF WAGES, OTHER STAFF WAGES, TAXES, ADMINISTRA-
 TIVE COSTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT AND STAFF-
 ING AGENCY CONTRACTS, INVESTMENTS IN IMPROVEMENTS TO THE  STRUCTURE  AND
 EQUIPMENT OF THE FACILITY, REAL ESTATE COSTS, CAPITAL EXPENSES, PROFITS,
 AND ANY OTHER FACTORS AS THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE.
   (B)  THE  DIRECT  PATIENT  CARE RATIO SHALL REQUIRE SEVENTY PERCENT OR
 SUCH HIGHER PERCENTAGE AS THE COMMISSIONER MAY ESTABLISH  BY  REGULATION
 OF A FACILITY'S AGGREGATE REVENUE IN A FISCAL YEAR TO BE EXPENDED ON THE
 DIRECT  CARE OF RESIDENTS.  IN ADDITION, FORTY PERCENT OF THE FACILITY'S
 AGGREGATE REVENUE, WHICH SHALL BE CONSIDERED PART  OF  THE  DIRECT  CARE
 COSTS,  SHALL BE EXPENDED ON STAFF WAGES AND BENEFITS, AND PURCHASED AND
 CONTRACTED STAFFING SERVICES.  FOR PURPOSES OF CALCULATING PURCHASED AND
 CONTRACTED STAFFING SERVICES, THE TOTAL NUMBER USED SHALL BE  DISCOUNTED
 AT  EIGHTY-FIVE  PERCENT  OF  THE  CONTRACTED OR PURCHASED AMOUNT.   THE
 COMMISSIONER SHALL DETERMINE WHICH COMPONENTS OF THE REPORTING  REQUIRE-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD02777-04-1

 S. 4336--A                          2
 
 MENTS  SHALL BE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE DIRECT PATIENT CARE RATIO, BUT SHALL
 NOT INCLUDE ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, PROFITS, REAL ESTATE COSTS, AND  CAPI-
 TAL  EXPENSES.  THE COMMISSIONER MAY ADJUST THE COMPONENTS OF THE DIRECT
 PATIENT CARE RATIO AS APPROPRIATE BASED ON CURRENT FINANCIAL INFORMATION
 REPORTED  BY  NURSING  HOMES AND OVERALL PERFORMANCE BY THE NURSING HOME
 RELATED TO PATIENT SAFETY, DIRECT PATIENT CARE STAFF RATIOS, AND QUALITY
 OF CARE.
   (C) THE COMMISSIONER, OR AN ENTITY DESIGNATED BY THE COMMISSIONER, MAY
 CONDUCT AN AUDIT OF THE FINANCIAL INFORMATION REPORTED BY A NURSING HOME
 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION TO  ENSURE  THE  ACCURACY  OF  THE  INFORMATION
 REPORTED  AND  COMPLIANCE  WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AS
 WELL AS TO IDENTIFY AND RECOVER ANY PAYMENTS  THAT  EXCEED  THE  ALLOWED
 COST  RATIO FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND PROFITS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO
 PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION. IN EACH CASE WHERE THE DIRECT PATIENT
 CARE RATIO FAILS TO SUBSTANTIALLY  COMPLY  WITH  THE  RATIO  REQUIREMENT
 ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION, THE NURSING HOME SHALL ISSUE A
 PRO  RATA  DIVIDEND  OR  CREDIT  TO THE STATE AND TO ALL INDIVIDUALS AND
 ENTITIES MAKING PAYMENTS TO THE NURSING HOME FOR RESIDENT SERVICES IN AN
 AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO ENSURE THAT THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT  PAID  FOR  DIRECT
 PATIENT  CARE  STAFF  WAGES,  OTHER  STAFF  WAGES, TAXES, ADMINISTRATIVE
 COSTS, INVESTMENTS IN IMPROVEMENTS TO THE STRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT OF THE
 FACILITY, PROFITS, AND SUCH OTHER  FACTORS  AS  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL
 REQUIRE, PLUS THE AMOUNT OF THE DIVIDENDS AND CREDITS, EQUALS THE MANDA-
 TORY  RATIO  FOR  THE  PREVIOUS  CALENDAR YEAR. THE PRO RATA DIVIDEND OR
 CREDIT SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE PERCENTAGE OF PAYMENTS MADE BY THE PAYOR TO
 THE NURSING HOME OUT OF ALL  PAYMENTS  MADE  TO  THE  NURSING  HOME  FOR
 SERVICES  PROVIDED IN THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR FROM ALL PAYMENT SOURC-
 ES. ALL DIVIDENDS AND CREDITS SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED BY JUNE THIRTIETH  OF
 THE  YEAR  FOLLOWING  THE  CALENDAR YEAR IN WHICH THE RATIO REQUIREMENTS
 WERE NOT SATISFIED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Feb 22, 2021 - floor Vote

Floor Vote: Feb 22, 2021

Feb 22, 2021 - Health committee Vote

Health Committee Vote: Feb 22, 2021

Feb 22, 2021 - Rules committee Vote

Rules Committee Vote: Feb 22, 2021

Bill Amendments

S4336 - Details

S4336 - Summary

S4336 - Sponsor Memo

S4336 - Bill Text download pdf

Co-Sponsors

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Details

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Summary

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Sponsored By

Gustavo Rivera

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

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Feb 22, 2021 - floor Vote

Floor Vote: Feb 22, 2021

Feb 22, 2021 - Health committee Vote

Health Committee Vote: Feb 22, 2021

Feb 22, 2021 - Rules committee Vote

Rules Committee Vote: Feb 22, 2021

Bill Amendments

S4336 - Details

S4336 - Summary

S4336 - Sponsor Memo

S4336 - Bill Text download pdf

Co-Sponsors

Alessandra Biaggi

Michelle Hinchey

Robert Jackson

Liz Krueger

Kevin S. Parker

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Details

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Summary

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S4336A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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