Hello Healthcare friend,
We hope our first Healthy Conversations Newsletter finds you well! As you know, Governor Hochul released her Executive Budget on January 16, and the Health Budget hearing was held January 23 (available to view, with a list of witnesses). Next up, the Governor will have her 21- and 30-day amendments, followed by the Legislative Proposals due March 2, and the final Budget Proposal due March 31.
Here at SRC, we continue to thoroughly monitor the Budget Proposals and bills, and we will provide you with any language and updates specific to your concerns.
Finally, as the newest member of the Health Team, I wanted to introduce myself in a brief video. If there is anything else you’d like to see in the newsletter, please reach out. We hope this will become a useful resource for you.
Cheers to a happy, healthy weekend and lots of great work ahead!
Best,
Erin
Erin.hammond@srclawoffices.com
518-407-5800
Legislature’s Budget Hearing Schedule:
| Date | Day | Time | Hearing |
| January 30 | Tuesday | 9:30am | Economic Development/Arts |
| 2pm | Workforce Development/Labor | ||
| January 31 | Wednesday | 9:30am | Human Services |
| February 1 | Thursday | 9:30am | Elementary & Secondary Education |
| February 6 | Tuesday | 9:30am | Local/General Government |
| February 7 | Wednesday | 9:30am | Environmental Conservation |
| February 8 | Thursday | 9:30am | Higher Education |
| February 13 | Tuesday | 9:30am | Mental Hygiene |
| February 14 | Wednesday | 9:30am | Taxes |
| 12pm | Housing |
BUDGET
Budget Briefing Bill
Budget Press Release
Governor’s Executive Budget Proposal Legislation
Medicaid Redesign Team 1115 Waiver
The Blue Book: Senate Majority Staff Analysis of the 2024-2025 Executive Budget Proposal
NYS Assembly Ways and Means Committee Yellow Book: Review and Analysis of the 2024-25 Executive Budget
EVENTS
DOH Hearings
FEBRUARY
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 (snow date 2/13/24)
- The State Camp Safety Advisory Council will meet at 10:30 am at UAlbany School of Public Health, Rensselaer, NY
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- The Public Health and Health Planning Council’s Public Health Committee will convene at 10:30am, New York, NY
Thursday, February 8, 2024
- The Public Health and Health Planning Council Council’s Committee on Codes, Regulations and Legislation will meet at 9:30am, New York, NY
- The Public Health and Health Planning Council will hold its Annual Full Council Meeting immediately following the Committee on Codes, Regulations and Legislation meeting
- You may view but not participate the public meeting via the live webcast
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Assembly Committee Agenda
Assembly Hearings
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
- Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2024 Executive Budget Proposal: Topic Economic Development, at 9:30am, Albany, NY and will live stream
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
- Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2024 Executive Budget Proposal: Topic Mental Hygiene, at 9:30am, Albany, NY and will live stream
Senate Hearings
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
- Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2024 Executive Budget Proposal: Topic Economic Development, at 9:30am, Albany, NY and will live stream
Monday, February 5, 2024
- Senate Standing Committee on Labor to hear from the New York State Workers Compensation Board, experts in workers compensation, workers compensation lawyers, labor partners, and injured workers on the current state of workers compensation and to bring light to areas of improvement, Albany, NY
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
- Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2024 Executive Budget Proposal: Topic Mental Hygiene, at 9:30am, Albany, NY and will live stream
Senate Committee Meetings
Monday, January 29, 2024
Senate Standing Committee on Disabilities, Senator John W. Mannion, Chair
Room 945 LOB, 11:30am, or streamed here
2360: Mannion (Refer to Finance)
- An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to prohibiting the withholding of state funding for service providers for people with developmental disabilities due to the receipt of COVID-19 federal funds
3108A: Mannion (Refer to Finance)
- An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the duties of the independent developmental disability ombudsman program
3118: Mannion
- An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages
4127A: Mannion (Refer to Finance)
- An act relating to establishing a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities
Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Senator Liz Krueger, Chair
Held off the floor; Room 332 CAP
156: Krueger
- An act to amend the executive law, in relation to designating the month of May as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month
1110A: Comrie
- An act to amend the executive law and the general municipal law, in relation to requiring an “X” gender marker to be included in certain documents utilized by state agencies, public authorities and municipalities
2241: Weik
- An act to amend the executive law, in relation to designating March twenty-first as “Down Syndrome Awareness Day”
2675: Fernandez
- An act to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration known as “Overdose Awareness Day”
3284: Sanders
- An act to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing September twenty-second of each year as a day of commemoration known as “Veteran Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day”
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Room 813 LOB, 9:30am or streamed here
Senate Standing Committee on Mental Health, Senator Samra G. Brouk, Chair
1866: Brouk (Refer to Disabilities)
- An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to adding fetal alcohol spectrum disorders to the definition of developmental disability
3115: Mannion (Refer to Finance)
- An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring certain fees be deposited into the mental illness anti-stigma fund
5516A: Brouk
- An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the geriatric service demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration
8368: Brouk (Refer to Finance)
- An act in relation to establishing a task force to study aging in place in mental health housing; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
NEWS
- New York Is Planning to Shutter a Major Brooklyn Teaching Hospital
- Hochul to Propose $25 Million in State Funding for A.L.S. Research
- What to know about Medicaid’s $7.5B redesign
- Why Hochul’s budget won’t be an easy one
- Medicaid poised for few new investments as state tightens belt
FUNDING
Grants Gateway
Statewide Transformation Grants
- Press release
- Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program IV and V Health Information Technology, Cybersecurity, and Telehealth Transformation
- Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program IV
- Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation Program IV – Residential and Community-based Alternatives to the Traditional Model of Nursing Home Care
- New York Health Equity Reform: Social Care Networks
CONTACTS
Senate Health Committee
Senator Gustavo Rivera, Chair (D. WF, Dist. 33)
grivera@nysenate.gov
Albany Office: 518-455-3395
Assembly Healthcare Chair
Assemblymember Amy Paulin (D., Dist. 88)
PaulinA@nyassembly.gov
Albany Office: 518-455-5585
Directory
LINKS
NYSDOH
- Health Initiatives
- Data & Reports
- Clinical Guidelines, Standards & Quality of Care
- Permits, Licenses & Certification
- State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald Testifies at Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2025 State Fiscal Year Executive Budget Proposal
TRIVIA
The word “muscle” comes from the Latin term meaning “little mouse.” It’s said that Ancient Romans thought that’s what flexed bicep muscles resembled. (National Geographics Kids)