Bill Text: NY A08703 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8703
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     October 5, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        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
    19  of  the board appointing an interim member, so long as a majority of all
    20  current members and those serving in a hold-over capacity vote in  favor
    21  of the interim appointment.
    22    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to any
    23  vacancy existing on or after such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11619-04-7