Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2022-2023 state fiscal year; enacts the "nurses across New York (NANY) program; establishes a nurse loan repayment program (Part A); enacts the interstate medical licensure compact; provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in multiple participating states, thereby enhancing the portability of a medical license and ensuring the safety of patients; enacts the nurse licensure compact (Part B); allows pharmacists to administer direct limited service laboratories and order waived tests; modernizes nurse practitioners; relates to regulations for certain medication-related tasks provided by certified medical aides and other certain individuals; relates to the effectiveness of the nurse practitioners modernization act; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof (Part C); establishes the health care and mental hygiene worker bonuses (Part D); increases general public health work base grants for both full-service and partial-service counties; allows for local health departments to claim up to fifty percent of personnel service costs (Part E); modernizes the emergency medical system by establishing the emergency medical services quality and sustainability assurance program, the statewide comprehensive emergency medical system plan, and the emergency medical systems training program (Part F); transfers provisions relating to the health professions from state education department to the department of health (Part G); relates to the cap on local Medicaid expenditures (Part H); provides a one percent across the board payment increase to all qualifying fee-for-service Medicaid rates (Part I); extends the statutory requirement to reweight and rebase acute hospital rates (Part J); establishes a new statewide health care facility transformation program to fund strengthening of quality health care services in alignment with statewide and regional health care needs (Part K); streamlines and adds criteria to the certificate of need process; (Part L); relates to the definition of revenue in the minimum spending statute for nursing homes and the rates of payment and rates of reimbursement for residential health care facilities, and in relation to making a temporary payment to facilities in severe financial distress (Part M); relates to Medicaid eligibility requirements for seniors and disabled individuals (Part N); directs the department of health to establish or procure the services of an independent panel of clinical professionals and to develop and implement a uniform task-based assessment tool; relates to managed long term care plans program oversight and administration, in relation to private duty nursing service reimbursement for nurses servicing adult members and establishing programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (Part O); provides authority for the department of health to competitively procure managed care organizations; requires Medicaid managed care organizations, the essential plan and qualified health plans to contract with national cancer institute-designated cancer centers, where such centers agree to certain terms and conditions (Part P); permits the commissioner of health to submit a waiver that expands eligibility for New York's basic health program; increases the federal poverty limit cap for essential plan eligibility from two hundred to two hundred fifty percent; allows pregnant individuals to be eligible for the basic health program and maintain coverage in the basic health program for one year post pregnancy and to deem a child born to an individual covered under the basic health program to be deemed eligible for medical assistance (Part Q); requires private insurance plans to cover abortion services without cost-sharing (Part R); includes expanded pre-natal and post-partum care as standard coverage when determined to be necessary; allows for certain pregnant individuals to continue to be eligible for medical assistance for a certain period of time in certain situations (Part S); requires third trimester syphilis testing (Part T); transfers Child Health Plus rate setting authority from the department of financial services to the department of health; updates the definition of "covered health care services" and "premium payment" (Part U); relates to reimbursement for commercial and Medicaid services provided via telehealth (Part V); eliminates unnecessary requirements from the utilization threshold program (Part W); redefines the duties and renames the office of minority health to the office of health equity; renames the minority health council to the health equity council (Part X); provides for new marriage certificates in case of subsequent change of name or gender (Part Y); relates to the purchase of excess coverage by physicians and dentists and reimbursement of costs therefor by the superintendent of financial services; extends the effectiveness of the physicians medical malpractice program, certain provisions relating to malpractice and professional medical conduct, certain provisions concerning the hospital excess liability pool, and certain provisions relating to excess coverage (Part Z); clarifies provisions regarding emergency medical services and surprise bills (Subpart A); provides for compliance with the federal no surprises act (Subpart B); provides for administrative simplification (Subpart C) (Part AA); relates to prescriber prevails (Part BB); extends various provisions relating to health and mental hygiene (Part CC); establishes a cost of living adjustment for designated human services programs (Part DD); provides that the commissioner of the office of mental health, in conjunction with the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports, shall have joint oversight of the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline; establishes a designated hotline center; makes related provisions (Part EE); relates to funding for behavioral health services (Part FF); extends provisions related to the waiver of certain regulations (Part GG); requires a stock of opioid agonist medication for the treatment of an opioid use disorder (Part HH); relates to community residences for addiction (Part II); expands the scope of the alcohol awareness program to be the substance use awareness program (Part JJ); authorizes the facilities development corporation to acquire, improve and lease mental health facilities providing services for the treatment of addiction (Part KK); extends government rates for behavioral services and correctly references the office of addiction services and supports (Part LL); extends Kendra's law and assisted outpatient treatment (Part MM); relates to rental and mortgage payments for the mentally ill; defines "supportive housing" to mean, for the purpose of this section only, the method by which the commissioner contracts to provide rental support and funding for non-clinical support services in order to maintain recipient stability (Part NN); relates 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 OO).

Statutes affected:
A9007: 6501 education law, 571 public health law, 571(6) public health law, 6801 education law, 6902 education law, 6902(3) education law, 6908 education law, 6909 education law, 6527 education law, 6527(6) education law, 6909(4) education law, 605 public health law, 605(2) public health law, 3002 public health law, 3003 public health law, 3008 public health law, 3001 public health law, 3001(1) public health law, 2807-c public health law, 2807-c(35) public health law, 2828 public health law, 2828(2) public health law, 2828(4) public health law, 366 social services law, 366(8) social services law, 366-c social services law, 366-c(1) social services law, 364-j social services law, 364-j(2) social services law, 4403-f public health law, 4403-f(2) public health law, 268-c public health law, 3221 insurance law, 3221(k) insurance law, 4303 insurance law, 365-a social services law, 365-a(2) social services law, 369-hh social services law, 2510 public health law, 2510(7) public health law, 2510(9) public health law, 2511 public health law, 2511(8) public health law, 2511(7) public health law, 2999-dd public health law, 2999-dd(1) public health law, 3217-h insurance law, 3217-h(a) insurance law, 4306-g insurance law, 4306-g(a) insurance law, 4406-g public health law, 601 financial services law, 604 financial services law, 606 financial services law, 608 financial services law, 608(a) financial services law, 3217-b insurance law, 4324 insurance law, 4324(a) insurance law, 4325 insurance law, 4406-c public health law, 4804 insurance law, 4804(e) insurance law, 3217-d insurance law, 4306-c insurance law, 4905 insurance law, 4905(g) insurance law, 4905 public health law, 4905(7) public health law, 461-l social services law, 461-l(3) social services law, 958 executive law, 958(6) executive law, 207-a public health law, 207-a(2) public health law, 3309 public health law, 1.03 mental hygiene law, 41.52 mental hygiene law, 41.38 mental hygiene law