Bill Text: NY A04562 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the commissioners of health and general services to promulgate standards for the procurement and use of environmentally sensitive commodities and services for hospitals; provides that these provisions shall be applicable to all hospitals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A04562 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A04562-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4562 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, DINOWITZ, ORTIZ, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law and the state finance law, in relation to the procurement and use of environmentally sensitive commodities and services by hospitals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 2805-z to read as follows: 3 § 2805-z. Procurement and use of environmentally sensitive commodities 4 and services. 1. For the purposes of this section the following terms 5 shall mean: 6 (a) "Environmentally sensitive commodities and services" means those 7 commodities and services that minimize adverse impacts on the public 8 health and the environment as determined by the commissioner of general 9 services. 10 (b) "Commodity" or "commodities" means materials, goods, supplies, 11 products, construction items and other standard articles of commerce 12 other than technology. 13 (c) "Construction item" means any item or material used in 14 construction and which is procured directly by a hospital or by a person 15 under contract by a hospital. 16 (d) "Service" or "services" means the performance of a task or tasks 17 and may include a material good or a quantity of material goods, and 18 which is subject of any purchase or other exchange. For the purposes of 19 this section, technology shall be deemed a service. 20 2. The commissioner of general services, in consultation with the 21 commissioner, shall establish and from time to time amend guidelines and 22 specifications for environmentally sensitive commodities and services 23 for use in hospitals; and for use in the construction, renovation or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09059-01-9A. 4562 2 1 repair of hospital buildings and related facilities. Such guidelines 2 shall be used to identify environmentally sensitive commodities and 3 services which are available in the form, function and utility generally 4 used by such facilities. Such commissioners shall review and evaluate 5 existing research regarding environmentally sensitive commodities and 6 services, including but not limited to, the United States environmental 7 protection agency's guidelines for environmentally sensitive commodities 8 and services, for the purpose of developing appropriate criteria for 9 such guidelines and specifications. 10 3. The commissioner of general services shall disseminate to all 11 hospitals guidelines and specifications for the purchase or use of envi- 12 ronmentally sensitive commodities and services in hospitals; and for use 13 in the construction, renovation or repair of hospital buildings and 14 related facilities. The commissioner of general services shall also 15 prepare and disseminate to all hospitals a sample list of such environ- 16 mentally sensitive commodities and services that meet these guidelines 17 or specifications and their environmental and health benefits. Every 18 hospital shall consider such guidelines, specifications and sample list 19 when making determinations as to the purchase of commodities, 20 construction items or services for use in the hospital, or for use in 21 the construction, renovation, or repair of hospital buildings. 22 4. On or before June first, two thousand twenty-one, the office of 23 general services and the department shall jointly issue a report provid- 24 ing an analysis of the impact of such guidelines and specifications on 25 the purchasing and procurement practices of hospitals. 26 § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 163 of the state finance 27 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xiii) to read as follows: 28 (xiii) maintain a list of firms which produce or manufacture or offer 29 for sale environmentally sensitive commodities and services in the form, 30 function, and utility generally used by hospitals in accordance with 31 specifications or guidelines promulgated pursuant to section twenty- 32 eight hundred five-z of the public health law. 33 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 34 it shall have become a law; provided that the amendment to paragraph b 35 of subdivision 3 of section 163 of the state finance law, made by 36 section two of this act, shall not affect the repeal of such section and 37 shall be deemed repealed therewith. Effective immediately the addition, 38 amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the 39 implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be 40 made and completed on or before such date.
