What's happening
This bill updates the requirements for school-based health centers, specifying licensing and sponsorship criteria under the public health law.
Why it matters
Shifts from specific staffing and access requirements to a focus on proper licensing and oversight. The bill removes detailed mandates for on-site, multi-disciplinary teams and 24/7 access, instead requiring centers to be licensed or sponsored by approved health facilities, which may impact the range and consistency of services offered.
Aligns school-based health centers more closely with broader health facility standards. By tying operation to article twenty-eight of the public health law, the bill could standardize care and accountability, possibly improving regulatory compliance and integration with the state's health system.
May affect which organizations can operate school-based health centers. The new criteria could limit eligible operators to those meeting specific licensing or sponsorship requirements, potentially changing the landscape of who can deliver school-based healthcare and under what conditions.
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Update School Health Centers
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to finance
- Referred to finance
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Update School Health Centers Rules
In Assembly Committee · Ways And Means · Sponsor Felix Ortiz
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
778
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by Sen. MONTGOMERY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the school-based health centers fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 99-bb of the state finance law, as added by chapter 293 of the laws of 2018, is renumbered section 99-ff.
§ 2. The closing paragraph of subdivision 7 of section 99-ff of the state finance law, as added by chapter 293 of the laws of 2018 and such section as renumbered by section one of this act, is amended to read as follows:
Services shall be provided [on-site] by a [multi-disciplinary team consisting of a mid-level practitioner, a mental health counselor, and a medical assistant in consultation with a physician. The centers shall also provide access to health care twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week] school-based health center licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law or sponsored by a facility licensed under the public health law and approved to operate by the New York state department of health.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03558-01-9
Reflowed for reading: line numbers and page breaks removed. Cite the official text.
Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the state finance law, in relation to the school-based health centers fund
Purpose
This bill creates a personal income tax check-off box for donations to the school-based health centers fund. Contributions shall be made in whole dollar amounts. Such funds shall be deposited in the "school-based health centers fund" in the custody of the Comptroller to be used by the Department of Health to fund expansion of medical services at existing school based health sites orto establish new sites.
Summary of provisions
The tax law is amended by adding a new section 630-f to allow state tax payers to contribute to school-based health centers on their state tax forms commencing on or after January first, two thousand nineteen, an individual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the school- based health centers fund. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-bb to create a new school-based health centers fund in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of health.
Justification
For school-age children and youth in high need areas, School Based Health Clinics are the first line of defense against costly hospitaliza- tions because they provide preventive services for such chronic condi- tions as epileptic seizures, asthma, diabetes, gastroenteritis, urinary tract infections, nutritional deficiencies, and pelvic inflammatory disease. Mental health services offered at some of these clinics have produced significant declines in depression and improvements in well- ness. Creation of an income tax check off will permit expansion of services and development of new sites to provide these vital health
Legislative history
2011/12A306A - PASSED-ASSEMBLY;
2013A2577-A PASSED ASSEMBLY; SENATE.
2003-2013 DIED IN COMMITTEE;
2014 S.1378 A REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.
2016 PASSED ASSEMBLY, DIED IN THE SENATE AND REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.
2017 PASSED ASSEMBLY, DIED IN THE SENATE AND RETURNED TO THE ASSEMBLY 01/03/18 REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
03/12/18 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
03/12/18 PRINT NUMBER 4487B
06/07/18 COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
06/07/18 ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1640
06/07/18 SUBSTITUTED BY A26608 A02660 Ortiz (MS)AMEND=B
03/15/18 REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
06/07/18 SUBSTITUTED FOR 54487B
06/07/18 3RD READING CAL.1640
06/07/18 PASSED SENATE
06/07/18 RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
Fiscal implications
$2 million in new revenue projected
Local fiscal implications
EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately
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