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S 10177 NY

Relates to capital upgrades to certain residential health care facilities

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced May 4, 2026

Latest action (May 4, 2026) REFERRED TO HEALTH

Summary

The bill amends New York's Public Health Law to remove cost limitations and equity requirements for capital upgrades at certain residential health care facilities. For renovations or new construction beginning July 1, 2025, publicly-sponsored facilities and those receiving grants under the Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation program will not be subject to per-bed limitations on total project costs or minimum equity requirements exceeding 10 percent of total project costs. The bill defines owner's equity in a way that excludes asset revaluation and certain mortgage-related amounts. The modifications are intended to allow these facilities greater flexibility in financing capital projects. The bill takes effect immediately.

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Official abstract

Ensures that publicly-sponsored residential health care facilities and facilities that receive grants under the Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation program are not subject to outdated total project cost caps or excessive project equity requirements.

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  1. May 4, 2026 REFERRED TO HEALTH · upper

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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S10177 Summary: BILL NO S10177 &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A11062

&nbsp SPONSOR ASHBY &nbsp COSPNSR &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Amd §2808, Pub Health L &nbsp Ensures that publicly-sponsored residential health care facilities and facilities that receive grants under the Statewide Health Care Facility Transformation program are not subject to outdated total project cost caps or excessive project equity requirements.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

10177

IN SENATE

May 4, 2026 ___________

Introduced by Sen. ASHBY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to capital upgrades to certain residential health care facilities

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2-a of section 2808 of the 2 public health law, as amended by section 52 of part B of chapter 57 of 3 the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 4 (d) For facilities granted operating certificates on or after March 5 tenth, nineteen hundred seventy-five, recognition of real property costs 6 in such regulations shall be based upon historical costs to the owner of 7 the facility, provided that payment for real property costs shall not be 8 in excess of the actual debt service, including principal and interest, 9 and payment with respect to owner's equity, and further provided that, 10 subject to federal financial participation, and subject to the approval 11 of the commissioner, effective April first, two thousand fifteen, the 12 commissioner may modify such payments for real property costs for 13 purposes of effectuating a shared savings program, whereby facilities 14 share a minimum of fifty percent of savings, for facilities that elect 15 to refinance their mortgage loans ; and further provided that for any 16 renovation or new construction of a residential health care facility 17 which commences on or after July first, two thousand twenty-five, there 18 shall be no minimum equity requirements in excess of 10 percent of total 19 project costs or per bed limitations on total project costs utilized in 20 the determination of payments for real property costs under this article 21 for the following facilities: (i) any facility which received an award 22 pursuant to sections twenty-eight hundred twenty-five-f, twenty-eight 23 hundred twenty-five-g or twenty-eight hundred twenty-five-h of this 24 article; and (ii) any non-state operated public residential health care 25 facility . For purposes of this subdivision, owner's equity shall be 26 calculated without regard to any surplus created by revaluation of 27 assets and shall not include amounts resulting from mortgage amorti-

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15555-01-6

S. 10177 2

1 zation where the payment therefor has been provided by real property 2 cost reimbursement. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 4 the amendments to paragraph (d) of subdivision 2-a of section 2808 of 5 the public health law made by section one of this act shall be subject 6 to the expiration and repeal of such paragraph and shall expire and be 7 deemed repealed therewith.

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