Bill Text: NY A04878 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the New York city health and hospital corporation spend a minimum of 5% of its budget on acute care and emergency room facilities in each borough and requires a representative from each borough on its board of directors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A04878 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04878-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4878
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN  ACT to amend the New York city health and hospitals corporation act,
          in relation to the financing of acute care or emergency  room  facili-
          ties
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 6 of section 1 of chapter 1016 of the laws of 1969,
     2  constituting the New York city health and hospitals corporation act,  is
     3  amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     4    8.  The corporation shall spend a minimum of five percent of the capi-
     5  tal budget and five percent of the operating budget in each borough.
     6    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 4 of section 1 of chapter  1016  of  the
     7  laws of 1969, constituting the New York city health and hospitals corpo-
     8  ration act, is amended to read as follows:
     9    1.  A corporation, to be known as the "New York city health and hospi-
    10  tals corporation," is hereby created. Such corporation shall be  a  body
    11  corporate  and  politic  constituting  a  public benefit corporation. It
    12  shall be administered by a board  of  directors  consisting  of  sixteen
    13  members, constituted as follows: five directors shall be the administra-
    14  tor,  the  commissioner  appointed  by the mayor as chief administrative
    15  officer of the health functions of the administration, the  director  of
    16  community  mental health services of the administration, the administra-
    17  tor of human resources of the city, and the deputy  mayor-city  adminis-
    18  trator  of  the  city,  or their successors, all serving ex-officio; ten
    19  directors shall be appointed by the mayor, five of whom shall be  desig-
    20  nated  by  the  city council of the city of New York and shall include a
    21  representative from each of the five boroughs; and the remaining  direc-
    22  tor  shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation. Such chief
    23  executive officer shall be chosen by the aforementioned  fifteen  direc-
    24  tors  from persons other than themselves and shall serve at the pleasure
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  of the board. The terms of the ten  directors  first  appointed  by  the
     2  mayor, other than those serving ex-officio shall be as follows:
     3    Two  shall  serve  for  terms of one year each, one of whom shall have
     4  been designated by the city council;
     5    Two shall serve for terms of two years each, one of  whom  shall  have
     6  been designated by the city council;
     7    Two  shall serve for terms of three years each, one of whom shall have
     8  been designated by the city council;
     9    Two shall serve for terms of four years each, one of whom  shall  have
    10  been designated by the city council;
    11    Two  shall  serve for terms of five years each, one of whom shall have
    12  been designated by the city council;
    13  thereafter their successors shall serve for terms of  five  years  each.
    14  The  mayor  shall  fill  any vacancy which may occur by reason of death,
    15  resignation or otherwise  in  a  manner  consistent  with  the  original
    16  appointment.  Directors  may  be removed by the mayor for cause, but not
    17  without an opportunity to be heard.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.