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NY A03212
Bill
Status
1/23/2025
Primary Sponsor
Angelo Santabarbara
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AI Summary
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Creates a distinctive "Feeling Rural Good" license plate available to New York residents upon request, with an additional $25 annual service charge on top of standard registration fees
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Establishes the "Feeling Rural Good Health Care Fund" to receive service charges collected in excess of $6,000 annually from the specialty plates
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Directs fund revenues toward rural health initiatives including school-based health programs, telehealth broadband expansion, and New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health programs for farm, fishing, and forestry safety
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Supports quality improvements at rural general hospitals, home care agencies, hospices, nursing homes, and adult care facilities including assisted living programs
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Requires the Commissioner of Health to appoint a five-member Rural Health Care Advisory Board to recommend funding of rural health care projects, and mandates annual public reporting on fund disbursements and recipients
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Requires either a $6,000 surety bond or minimum 200 pre-orders before the plates can be designed and produced, with the bond discontinued if 200 sets are sold within two years
Legislative Description
Relates to the production of and the assessment of a surcharge for distinctive "Feeling Rural Good" license plates; establishes the feeling rural good health care fund; provides that funds deposited into the feeling rural good health care fund shall be used in rural regions of the state to expand school-based health programs, improve access to health research and education, and expand broadband access for improved access to telehealth.
Last Action
referred to transportation
1/7/2026