What's happening
This bill creates a state family planning program to maintain access to services for providers who lost federal Title X funding.
Why it matters
Protects access to contraception and reproductive care. by ensuring that family planning providers who lost federal funding can continue serving patients, preventing potential gaps in care for low-income individuals.
Helps stabilize clinics impacted by federal policy changes. by providing state funding and support, which may prevent closures or service reductions for providers previously reliant on Title X funds.
Maintains continuity and quality standards. by allowing the state to enforce the same eligibility and service requirements as the former federal Title X program, ensuring consistent care regardless of funding source.
Ensures state funds supplement, not replace, previous commitments. by requiring that new funding adds to, rather than substitutes for, existing state spending on family planning, which protects overall funding levels for reproductive health services.
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Keep Family Planning Services
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Assembly Member · Assembly District 25
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History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
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Protect Family Planning Access
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Alessandra Biaggi
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5686
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the social services law, in relation to the continuity of family planning services in the state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2827 to read as follows:
§ 2827. Family planning program. 1. For the purpose of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) "family planning providers" means providers of services:
(i) funded under Title X of the Federal Public Health Service Act as of December thirty-first, two thousand sixteen; and
(ii) that lost eligibility for Title X funding;
(b) "family planning services" means services provided under Title X of the Federal Public Health Service Act as of December thirty-first, two thousand sixteen; and
(c) "program" means the family planning program established under this section.
2. There is hereby established in the department a family planning program to ensure the continuity of family planning services in the state. The program shall provide family planning services to individuals who are eligible for family planning services through family planning providers that meet program requirements.
3. The department may adopt regulations to implement this section, including regulations establishing requirements for family planning providers that are the same as the requirements for providers of services under Title X of the Federal Public Health Service Act.
4. Funding used to support family planning services under the program shall be in addition to any funding applied by the department before December thirty-first, two thousand sixteen, to the maintenance of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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effort requirement for federal funding under Title X of the Federal Public Health Service Act.
§ 2. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 367-w to read as follows:
§ 367-w. Provision of family planning services. The department of health shall, to the extent permitted, subject to the limitations of the state budget, ensure access to and the continuity of services provided by family planning providers that received funding under Title X of the Federal Public Health Service Act as of December thirty-first, two thousand sixteen by:
1. reimbursing for the services provided under the medical assistance program; and
2. establishing medical assistance program requirements for the family planning providers that are the same as requirements for other providers of the same services.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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