Bill Text: NY S01966 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the number of physicians who may be appointed to serve as the medical board of the NYC employees' retirement system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-09-11 - SIGNED CHAP.249 [S01966 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01966-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1966--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 18, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  GOUNARDES,  KAMINSKY,  STAVISKY -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Cities  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to the medical board of the New York city employees' retire-
          ment system
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision a of section 13-123 of the administrative code
     2  of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 59 of  the  city
     3  of New York for the year 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a.  [(1)]  There shall be a medical board of three physicians. [One of
     5  such physicians shall be appointed by the board and shall hold office at
     6  the pleasure of such board, one shall be appointed by  the  commissioner
     7  of  health  and  shall hold office at the pleasure of such commissioner,
     8  and the third shall be appointed by the commissioner of citywide  admin-
     9  istrative services and shall hold office at the pleasure of such commis-
    10  sioner.
    11    (2)]  The  board,  the  commissioner of health and the commissioner of
    12  citywide administrative services shall each have power to appoint one or
    13  more but not exceeding [four alternate] eight physicians, who shall hold
    14  office at the pleasure of such appointing board  or  official.  Whenever
    15  the  board  of  trustees  of  the retirement system shall so direct, the
    16  functions, powers and duties of the medical board, [in addition to being
    17  performed and exercised by the three physicians  appointed  pursuant  to
    18  paragraph  one of this subdivision,] shall be performed and exercised by
    19  one or more groups of three physicians as hereinafter  prescribed.  Each
    20  such  group of three physicians shall function separately as the medical
    21  board and each such group may consist [partly] of [a physician  or]  any
    22  physicians  appointed  pursuant  to  [paragraph one of] this subdivision
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  [and partly of one or more alternate physicians or may consist  entirely
     2  of  alternate  physicians; provided, however, that one of the physicians
     3  or alternate physicians in each such group shall  be  appointed  by  the
     4  board,  one by the commissioner of health and one by the commissioner of
     5  citywide administrative services].
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.