Bill Text: NY S00869 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the amount of members on the public health and health planning council.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-02-16 - SIGNED CHAP.42 [S00869 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00869-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 869 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the amount 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 a chap- 2 ter of the laws of 2020, amending the public health law relating to 3 membership on the public health and health planning council, as proposed 4 in legislative bills numbers S.7304 and A.9530, is amended to read as 5 follows: 6 § 220. Public health and health planning council; appointment of 7 members. There shall continue to be in the department a public health 8 and health planning council to consist of the commissioner and fourteen 9 members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of 10 the senate; provided that effective December first, two thousand ten, 11 the membership of the council shall consist of the commissioner and 12 [twenty-six] twenty-four members to be appointed by the governor with 13 the advice and consent of the senate. Membership on the council shall be 14 reflective of the diversity of the state's population including, but not 15 limited to, the various geographic areas and population densities 16 throughout the state. The members shall include representatives of the 17 public health system, health care providers that comprise the state's 18 health care delivery system, individuals with expertise in the clinical 19 and administrative aspects of health care delivery, issues affecting 20 health care consumers, health planning, health care financing and 21 reimbursement, health care regulation and compliance, and public health 22 practice and at least two members shall also be members of the behav- 23 ioral health services advisory council; at least four members shall be 24 representatives of general hospitals or nursing homes; at least [three] EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07151-01-1S. 869 2 1 two members shall be representatives of health care consumer advocacy 2 organizations which have a statewide or regional constituency and have 3 been involved in activities related to health care consumer advocacy 4 including issues of interest to low- and moderate-income individuals; 5 and at least one member shall be a representative of each of the follow- 6 ing groups: home care agencies, diagnostic and treatment centers, 7 health care payors, and labor organizations for health care employees. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 9 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the public health law 10 relating to membership on the public health and health planning council, 11 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.7304 and A.9530, takes 12 effect.