Imposes a tax on out-of-state transfers, dividends, payments, and loans by certain accident and health insurance companies and health maintenance organizations to be deposited in the New York state agency trust fund, distressed provider assistance account.
Asm. Nikki Lucas
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Requires insurance policies to provide coverage for pre-term labor hospitalizations, home visits to monitor pre-term labor patients and counseling.
Relates to the general hospital indigent care pool and funding for safety net and enhanced safety net hospitals.
Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older.
Prohibits telephone corporations from charging a caller any increased rates, charges, or fees for long-distance or other calls without first notifying such caller.
Authorizes the transfer of pregnant and postpartum incarcerated individuals to residential treatment facilities; requires annual reporting on the number of such incarcerated individuals transferred.
Provides that consent to sexual contact is a knowing, voluntary, and mutual decision among all participants; makes related provisions.
Establishes the "Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act"; establishes minimum staffing levels for various health care workers in different health care facilities; requires submission of staffing plans; prohibits most mandatory overtime.
Permits the Nourish New York program to distribute certain funds without an application or competitive procurement process.