Bill Text: NY A09530 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to increasing membership on the public health and health planning council and directing the appointment of members representing particular areas of concern.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - approval memo.35 [A09530 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09530-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9530

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 24, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to membership on  the
          public health and health planning council

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

     1    Section 1. Section 220 of the public health law, as amended by section
     2  7 of part N of chapter 56 of the laws of 2012, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    §  220.  Public  health  and  health  planning council; appointment of
     5  members. There shall continue to be in the department  a  public  health
     6  and  health planning council to consist of the commissioner and fourteen
     7  members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and  consent  of
     8  the  senate;  provided  that effective December first, two thousand ten,
     9  the membership of the council shall  consist  of  the  commissioner  and
    10  [twenty-four]  twenty-six  members  to be appointed by the governor with
    11  the advice and consent of the senate. Membership on the council shall be
    12  reflective of the diversity of the state's population including, but not
    13  limited to,  the  various  geographic  areas  and  population  densities
    14  throughout  the  state. The members shall include representatives of the
    15  public health system, health care providers that  comprise  the  state's
    16  health  care delivery system, individuals with expertise in the clinical
    17  and administrative aspects of health  care  delivery,  issues  affecting
    18  health  care  consumers,  health  planning,  health  care  financing and
    19  reimbursement, health care regulation and compliance, and public  health
    20  practice  and  at  least two members shall also be members of the behav-
    21  ioral health services advisory council; at least four members  shall  be
    22  representatives  of  general  hospitals or nursing homes; at least three
    23  members shall be representatives of health care consumer advocacy organ-
    24  izations which have a statewide or regional constituency and  have  been
    25  involved  in activities related to health care consumer advocacy includ-
    26  ing issues of interest to low- and moderate-income individuals;  and  at
    27  least  one  member  shall  be  a representative of each of the following
    28  groups:  home care agencies, diagnostic and  treatment  centers,  health

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  care  payors,  and  labor  organizations for health care employees[, and
     2  health care consumer advocacy organizations].
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
     4  members of the public health and health planning  council  appointed  or
     5  re-appointed on and after that date.