Bill Text: NY A04903 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Ensures that each state agency create a link to health care proxy information on state agency websites that have significant public interaction.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-09 - print number 4903a [A04903 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04903-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4903
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 9, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to
         the Committee on Governmental Operations
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to health care proxy
         information on state agency websites
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  104  of  the executive law is amended to read as
    2  follows:
    3    S 104. Departmental cooperation. (A) The secretary of state may advise
    4  with the several departments, boards,  bureaus,  officers,  authorities,
    5  commissions  and  other  agencies  of  the state which are authorized by
    6  statute to issue codes, rules or regulations, to the end that  the  same
    7  may,  so  far  as  possible,  be  uniform in style and form, be properly
    8  numbered and captioned and be free from matter which is obsolete.
    9    (B) THE SECRETARY OF STATE SHALL, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSION-
   10  ER OF HEALTH, ADVISE WITH STATE DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS,  BUREAUS,  AUTHORI-
   11  TIES,  COMMISSIONS,  DIVISIONS  AND  OTHER AGENCIES WITH PUBLIC WEBSITES
   12  THAT HAVE SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC INTERACTION TO ENSURE THAT EACH  CREATES  A
   13  LINK  ON  THEIR HOMEPAGE TO HEALTH CARE PROXY INFORMATION ON THE DEPART-
   14  MENT OF HEALTH WEBSITE. A STATE DEPARTMENT,  BOARD,  BUREAU,  AUTHORITY,
   15  COMMISSION,  DIVISION  AND AGENCY WHICH DETERMINES THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE
   16  SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC TRAFFIC ON THEIR WEBSITE, OR  WHICH  DETERMINES  THAT
   17  CREATING SUCH A LINK WOULD BE A FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, MAY BE EXEMPTED FROM
   18  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2012.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09116-01-1