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Assembly Bill A6884

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Directs the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports to promulgate rules and regulations for providers operating in rural locations

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2023-A6884 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5396
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §19.09, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9182
2025-2026: A2622, S5105

2023-A6884 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports to promulgate rules and regulations for providers operating in rural locations while taking into account the extra challenges encountered by such providers, including but not limited to, increased and additional expenses.

2023-A6884 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6884
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the mental hygiene law, in relation to directing the
   commissioner of the office  of  addiction  services  and  supports  to
   promulgate  rules  and  regulations  for  providers operating in rural
   locations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  19.09  of  the  mental hygiene law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
   (M) THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  PROMULGATE  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  FOR
 PROVIDERS  WHO  OPERATE  IN  RURAL  LOCATIONS THAT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE
 EXTRA CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED BY SUCH PROVIDERS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMIT-
 ED TO, INCREASED AND ADDITIONAL EXPENSES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09982-01-3

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