Bill Text: NY A03593 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Increases the number of alternate 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 [A03593 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03593-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3593--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees -- 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 of5such physicians shall be appointed by the board and shall hold office at6the pleasure of such board, one shall be appointed by the commissioner7of health and shall hold office at the pleasure of such commissioner,8and the third shall be appointed by the commissioner of citywide admin-9istrative services and shall hold office at the pleasure of such commis-10sioner.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 being17performed and exercised by the three physicians appointed pursuant to18paragraph 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. LBD07694-05-9A. 3593--A 2 1 [and partly of one or more alternate physicians or may consist entirely2of alternate physicians; provided, however, that one of the physicians3or alternate physicians in each such group shall be appointed by the4board, one by the commissioner of health and one by the commissioner of5citywide administrative services]. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.