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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1966
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 18, 2019
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        Introduced by Sens. GOUNARDES, KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
        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 such
     5  physicians shall be appointed by the board and shall hold office at  the
     6  pleasure  of  such  board, one shall be appointed by the commissioner of
     7  health and shall hold office at the pleasure of such  commissioner,  and
     8  the third shall be appointed by the commissioner of citywide administra-
     9  tive  services and shall hold office at the pleasure of such commission-
    10  er.
    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] seven alternate 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  physi-
    22  cians appointed pursuant to paragraph one of this subdivision and partly
    23  of one or more alternate physicians or may consist entirely of alternate
    24  physicians;  provided,  however, that one of the physicians or alternate
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 1966                             2
     1  physicians in each such group shall be appointed by the  board,  one  by
     2  the  commissioner  of  health  and  one  by the commissioner of citywide
     3  administrative services.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.