Bill Text: NY S01363 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1363 (Prior Session Legislation)

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.
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