STATE OF NEW YORK
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986
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 6, 2021
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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 the amount of
members 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 a chap-
2 ter of the laws of 2020, amending the public health law relating to
3 membership on the public health and health planning council, as proposed
4 in legislative bills numbers S.7304 and A.9530, is amended to read as
5 follows:
6 § 220. Public health and health planning council; appointment of
7 members. There shall continue to be in the department a public health
8 and health planning council to consist of the commissioner and fourteen
9 members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of
10 the senate; provided that effective December first, two thousand ten,
11 the membership of the council shall consist of the commissioner and
12 [twenty-six] twenty-four members to be appointed by the governor with
13 the advice and consent of the senate. Membership on the council shall be
14 reflective of the diversity of the state's population including, but not
15 limited to, the various geographic areas and population densities
16 throughout the state. The members shall include representatives of the
17 public health system, health care providers that comprise the state's
18 health care delivery system, individuals with expertise in the clinical
19 and administrative aspects of health care delivery, issues affecting
20 health care consumers, health planning, health care financing and
21 reimbursement, health care regulation and compliance, and public health
22 practice and at least two members shall also be members of the behav-
23 ioral health services advisory council; at least four members shall be
24 representatives of general hospitals or nursing homes; at least [three]
25 two members shall be representatives of health care consumer advocacy
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 organizations which have a statewide or regional constituency and have
2 been involved in activities related to health care consumer advocacy
3 including issues of interest to low- and moderate-income individuals;
4 and at least one member shall be a representative of each of the follow-
5 ing groups: home care agencies, diagnostic and treatment centers,
6 health care payors, and labor organizations for health care employees.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
8 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the public health law
9 relating to membership on the public health and health planning council,
10 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.7304 and A.9530, takes
11 effect.