§ 2825-g. Health care facility transformation program: statewide IV.\n1. A statewide health care facility transformation program is hereby\nestablished within the department for the purpose of transforming,\nredesigning, and strengthening quality health care services in alignment\nwith statewide and regional health care needs, and in the ongoing\npandemic response. The program shall also provide funding, subject to\nlawful appropriation, in support of capital projects, debt retirement,\nworking capital or other non-capital projects that facilitate furthering\nsuch transformational goals.\n 2. The commissioner shall enter into an agreement with the president\nof the dormitory authority of the state of New York pursuant to section\nsixteen hundred eighty-r of the public authorities law, which shall\napply to this agreement, subject to the approval of the director of the\ndivision of the budget, for the purposes of the distribution and\nadministration of available funds pursuant to such agreement, and made\navailable pursuant to this section and appropriation. Such funds may be\nawarded and distributed by the department for grants to health care\nproviders including but not limited to, hospitals, residential health\ncare facilities, adult care facilities licensed under title two of\narticle seven of the social services law, diagnostic and treatment\ncenters licensed or granted an operating certificate under this chapter,\nclinics, including but not limited to those licensed or granted an\noperating certificate under this chapter or the mental hygiene law,\nchildren's residential treatment facilities licensed under article\nthirty-one of the mental hygiene law, assisted living programs approved\nby the department pursuant to section four hundred sixty-one-l of the\nsocial services law, behavioral health facilities licensed or granted an\noperating certificate pursuant to articles thirty-one and thirty-two of\nthe mental hygiene law, home care providers certified or licensed under\narticle thirty-six of this chapter, primary care providers, hospices\nlicensed or granted an operating certificate pursuant to article forty\nof this chapter, community-based programs funded under the office of\nmental health, the office of addiction services and supports, the office\nfor people with developmental disabilities, or through local\ngovernmental units as defined under article forty-one of the mental\nhygiene law, independent practice associations or organizations, and\nresidential facilities or day program facilities licensed or granted an\noperating certificate under article sixteen of the mental hygiene law. A\ncopy of such agreement, and any amendments thereto, shall be provided by\nthe department to the chair of the senate finance committee, the chair\nof the assembly ways and means committee, and the director of the\ndivision of the budget no later than thirty days after such agreement is\nfinalized. Projects awarded, in whole or part, under sections\ntwenty-eight hundred twenty-five-a and twenty-eight hundred\ntwenty-five-b of this article shall not be eligible for grants or awards\nmade available under this section.\n 3. Notwithstanding subdivision two of this section or any inconsistent\nprovision of law to the contrary, and upon approval of the director of\nthe budget, the commissioner may, subject to the availability of lawful\nappropriation, award up to four hundred fifty million dollars of the\nfunds made available pursuant to this section for unfunded project\napplications submitted in response to the request for application number\n18406 issued by the department on September thirtieth, two thousand\ntwenty-one pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred twenty-five-f of\nthis article. Authorized amounts to be awarded pursuant to applications\nsubmitted in response to the request for application number 18406 shall\nbe awarded no later than February twenty-eighth, two thousand\ntwenty-three. Provided, however, that a minimum of:\n
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