Bill Text: NY A07124 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of members on the public health and health planning council from twenty-five to twenty-six and requires one member represent hospice care providers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A07124 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07124-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7124

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BLUMENCRANZ -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  increasing  the
          number of members on 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,  hospice  care
    25  providers,  diagnostic  and  treatment  centers, health care payors, and
    26  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.
                                                                   LBD10585-01-3