Bill Text: NY S01363 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to creating the Brooklyn health care commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - PRINT NUMBER 1363A [S01363 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01363-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1363--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 12, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to creating the Brooklyn health care commission The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new article 49-C 2 to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 49-C 4 BROOKLYN HEALTH CARE COMMISSION 5 Section 996. Brooklyn health care commission. 6 996-a. Kings county health care stakeholders council. 7 § 996. Brooklyn health care commission. 1. There is hereby created in 8 the executive department, a commission to be known as the "Brooklyn 9 health care commission," hereafter referred to as the "commission", 10 which shall be charged with examining the system of general hospitals, 11 nursing homes, ambulatory and primary care facilities, and medical 12 school facilities in Kings county and recommending changes to that 13 system. 14 2. The commission shall consist of the following eleven members: (a) 15 one member appointed by the temporary president of the senate; (b) one 16 member appointed by the speaker of the assembly; (c) one member 17 appointed by the minority leader of the senate; (d) one member appointed 18 by the minority leader of the assembly; (e) three members appointed by 19 the Kings county borough president, one member from each of the follow- 20 ing three regions: (i) north of Atlantic Avenue; (ii) south and west of 21 Flatbush Avenue; and (iii) south of Atlantic Avenue and east of Flatbush EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03824-02-6