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.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
2622
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 21, 2025
___________
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.
LBD03790-01-5
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