Bill Text: NY A08703 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to filling vacancies on a board of visitors for state veterans' homes through interim appointments if such vacancy has not been filled within 270 days.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-7)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-28 - substituted by s6144b [A08703 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A08703-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8703--A Cal. No. 611 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY October 5, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO, ORTIZ, McDONALD, M. G. MILLER, THIELE, GALEF, CUSICK, CROUCH, LAWRENCE, ZEBROWSKI, COLTON, MONTESANO, NORRIS, RA, MORINELLO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HAWLEY, SCHIMMINGER, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- advanced to a third reading, passed by Assembly and deliv- ered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote reconsidered, bill amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to filling vacancies on a board of visitors for state veterans' homes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2631 of the public health law, as amended by chap- 2 ter 563 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 2631. Board of visitors; special provision. The board of visitors 4 of each such home shall consist of nine members appointed from the 5 members of the New York departments of the major organizations of war 6 veterans to which charters have been issued by Acts of Congress or of 7 their women's auxiliaries. The terms of office of such visitors hereaft- 8 er appointed shall be five years, and they shall be so appointed that 9 the terms of two of the members shall expire on the first day of Febru- 10 ary of each year, except that the term of but one member shall so expire 11 every fifth year. Appointments shall be so made that there will be at 12 all times four women and five men members of such board. For state 13 veterans' homes operated by the department, in the event that a vacancy 14 is not filled within two hundred seventy days, the board may appoint an 15 interim member who otherwise meets the requirements of this section. The 16 interim member shall have the same rights and duties as an appointed 17 member and shall serve until such time that a nomination is forwarded to 18 the senate for advise and consent. A quorum is not required for purposes EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11619-06-8A. 8703--A 2 1 of the board appointing an interim member, so long as a majority of all 2 current members and those serving in a hold-over capacity vote in favor 3 of the interim appointment. For the purposes of this section, "hold-over 4 capacity" shall mean any member whose term has expired but who continues 5 to discharge his or her duties until his or her successor is chosen. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019, and shall apply to 7 any vacancy existing on or after such effective date.