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This bill requires public hospitals operated by counties or municipalities and receiving state funding to establish auto-immune disease treatment centers. The bill defines an "auto-immune disease treatment center project" as involving construction, reconstruction, renovation, rehabilitation, refurbishing, expansion, upgrading, or equipping of such a center. The commissioner of health is authorized to make department funds available to hospitals for these centers, using existing funding mechanisms or other appropriate regulations. The Office of Health Equity will assist the commissioner in allocating and distributing these funds, including developing methodologies for fund distribution. The commissioner is required to create necessary rules and regulations, and must provide an annual report to the governor and legislature detailing the funds allocated and distributed. The bill will take effect 120 days after becoming law, with provisions allowing for immediate preparation of necessary rules and regulations to implement the act.

Health and Social Services

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A5118