Bill Text: NY A03302 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of members of the public health and health planning council from 25 to 26; requires that a representative of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers be selected as a member of the public health and health planning council.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - signed chap.547 [A03302 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03302-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3302

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adding a represen-
          tative  of  freestanding  ambulatory  surgery  centers  to  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 chapter
     2  179 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  220.  Public  health  and  health  planning council; appointment of
     4  members. There shall continue to be in the department  a  public  health
     5  and  health planning council to consist of the commissioner and [twenty-
     6  five] twenty-six members to be appointed by the governor with the advice
     7  and consent of the senate. Membership on the council shall be reflective
     8  of the diversity of the state's population including,  but  not  limited
     9  to, the various geographic areas and population densities throughout the
    10  state.  The  members  shall include representatives of the public health
    11  system, health care providers that  comprise  the  state's  health  care
    12  delivery system, individuals with expertise in the clinical and adminis-
    13  trative  aspects  of  health care delivery, issues affecting health care
    14  consumers, health planning, health  care  financing  and  reimbursement,
    15  health care regulation and compliance, and public health practice and at
    16  least  two  members  shall  also  be  members  of  the behavioral health
    17  services advisory council; at least  four  members  shall  be  represen-
    18  tatives  of  general  hospitals  or  nursing homes; at least two members
    19  shall be representatives of health care consumer advocacy  organizations
    20  which  have  a statewide or regional constituency and have been involved
    21  in activities related to health care consumer advocacy including  issues
    22  of  interest  to  low- and moderate-income individuals; and at least one
    23  member shall be a  representative  of  each  of  the  following  groups:
    24  women's health service providers, home care agencies, freestanding ambu-
    25  latory  surgery  centers,  diagnostic and treatment centers, health care
    26  payors, and labor organizations for health care employees.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06834-01-3