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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A03007Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2025-2026 state fiscal year; requires the commissioner of health to provide a quarterly report on known and expected department of health state funds Medicaid expenditures through state fiscal year 2026-2027 (Part A); extends the effectiveness of various provisions relating to social services and healthcare including medical reimbursement and welfare reform (Part B); relates to supplemental hospital payments (Part D); shifts long-term nursing home stays from managed care to fee for service; authorizes penalties for managed care plans that do not meet contractual obligations (Part E); requires a health plan to pay the MCO provider tax for each calendar year; requires every health plan subject to the approved MCO provider tax to submit reports; imposes penalties for failure to submit such timely payments; grants the commissioner of health audit powers; relates to the healthcare stability fund; relates to Medicaid payment increases for certain medical services; makes certain Medicaid payment increases contingent upon the availability of funds within the healthcare stability fund (Part F); relates to insurance coverage for medical malpractice paid for by funds from the hospital excess liability pool; extends portions of the New York Health Care Reform Act of 1996 (Part G); eliminates the fees paid by funeral directors for permits for burials and removals which are used to support the electronic death registration system; repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto (Part I); relates to extending the time for awards to be granted to applications for the statewide health care facility transformation III program (Part J); requires general hospitals to report community benefit spending by July 1 of each calendar year (Part M); requires hospitals to provide stabilizing care to pregnant individuals; defines terms; repeals provisions relating to required protocols for fetal demise (Part P); relates to improving access to and increasing coverage for infertility treatments (Part Q); requires hospitals to have sexual assault forensic examiners (Part T); extends the provisions relating to preferred sources for entities that provide employment to certain persons (Part Z); extends certain provisions relating to clarifying the authority of the commissioners in the department of mental hygiene to design and implement time-limited demonstration programs to 03/31/2028 (Part AA); extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to the appointment of temporary operators for the continued operation of programs and the provision of services for persons with serious mental illness and/or developmental disabilities and/or chemical dependence (Part BB); extends certain provisions relating to services for individuals with developmental disabilities (Part CC); amends the definition of minor to exclude certain homeless youth for purposes of allowing such homeless youth to consent to certain medical, dental, health and hospital services, including behavioral health services (Part DD); relates to involuntary admission and assisted outpatient treatment; establishes the behavioral health crisis technical assistance center; relates to required training and maintaining of records relating to persons dealing with mental health and substance use crises (Part EE); provides that director of the budget, the commissioners of the office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities, office of addiction services and supports, office of temporary and disability assistance, office of children and family services, and the state office for the aging shall establish a state fiscal year 2025-2026 targeted inflationary increase, effective April 1, 2025, for projecting for the effects of inflation upon rates of payments, contracts, or any other form of reimbursement for the programs and services (Part FF); relates to the composition and work of mental health incident review panels (Part GG); provides that school-based health centers shall not be provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs until at least April 1, 2026 (Part HH); requires any New York subdivision that directly received funds pursuant to a statewide opioid settlement agreement to publicly post on their website information regarding how such funding was utilized and submit such information to the office of addiction services and supports (Part II); relates to clarifying which entities handle the reporting of pregnancy loss; and the responsibilities of health care providers and penalties for not protecting the identities of individuals who suffered a pregnancy loss (Part JJ); extends the authorization for certain fees and charges related to emergency medical services (Part KK); relates to the modernization and revitalization of the Nassau health care corporation (Part LL); extends certain provisions relating to the NYS medical indemnity fund (Part MM).
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Abortionbans gestational limitsAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Expands the definition of 'stabilize' to explicitly include providing an abortion when failure to do so would likely cause material deterioration of the patient's condition, so more situations in which hospitals must perform abortions to comply with EMTALA-like requirements.
"Stabilizing treatment" includes abortion pursuant to section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of this article when failure to provide an abortion will, within reasonable probability, result in material deterioration of the patient's condition upon or during transfer of the patient from the facility.
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AbortionexceptionsAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 70%
Broadens the definition of emergency medical condition for pregnant persons in active labor and requires stabilizing treatment (including abortion in certain cases), expanding the scope of required care and exceptions to transfer prohibitions.
with respect to a pregnant person who is in active labor: (1) that there is inadequate time to effect a safe transfer to another hospital before delivery; or (2) that transfer poses a threat to the health or safety of the pregnant person or the pregnancy.
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AbortionotherAI label
=No change to abortion accessmodel confidence 60%
Repeals provisions relating to required protocols for fetal demise, removing a prior regulatory requirement on hospitals.
Section 2803-o-1 of the public health law is REPEALED.
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Abortionfunding insuranceAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Expands Medicaid coverage to include standard fertility preservation services (such as collection, freezing and storage of oocytes or sperm) when medical treatment may cause iatrogenic infertility, increasing public funding for these services.
Medical assistance shall include the coverage of the following services for individuals when a medical treatment may directly or indirectly cause iatrogenic infertility, which is an impairment of fertility resulting from surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, sickle cell treatment, or other medical treatment affecting reproductive organs or processes: (1) standard fertility preservation services to prevent or treat infertility, which shall include medically necessary collection, freezing, preservation and storage of oocytes or sperm
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill text addresses abortion via Part P, which amends hospital emergency care rules to define stabilizing treatment as including abortion in cases where it prevents material deterioration (expanding access under emergency conditions) and repeals fetal demise protocols (neutral after repeal). Part Q expands Medicaid and grant funding for infertility treatments and preservation services tied to iatrogenic infertility, which falls under abortion/funding-insurance as it relates to reproductive health coverage. No provisions were found addressing firearms, transgender issues, or immigration-enf
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Hearings and calendar
2025-05-07 00:00 · Hearing · Assembly Ways and Means Committee Hearing