Bill Text: NY S04974 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for the financing of emergency room facilities in two hospitals in each borough by the New York city health and hospitals corporation; requires representation on the board from each borough.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S04974 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04974-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4974

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT to amend the New York city health and hospitals corporation act,
          in relation to the financing of acute care or emergency  room  facili-
          ties

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 6 of section 1 of chapter 1016 of the laws of 1969,
     2  constituting the New York city health and hospitals corporation act,  is
     3  amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     4    8.  The  corporation shall finance the operation of at least two acute
     5  care or emergency room facilities which  are  located  in  two  separate
     6  hospitals in each borough within the city.
     7    §  2.  Subdivision  1 of section 4 of section 1 of chapter 1016 of the
     8  laws of 1969, constituting the New York city health and hospitals corpo-
     9  ration act, is amended to read as follows:
    10    1. A corporation, to be known as the "New York city health and  hospi-
    11  tals  corporation,"  is hereby created. Such corporation shall be a body
    12  corporate and politic constituting  a  public  benefit  corporation.  It
    13  shall  be  administered  by  a  board of directors consisting of sixteen
    14  members, constituted as follows: five directors shall be the administra-
    15  tor, the commissioner appointed by the  mayor  as  chief  administrative
    16  officer  of  the health functions of the administration, the director of
    17  community mental health services of the administration, the  administra-
    18  tor  of  human resources of the city, and the deputy mayor-city adminis-
    19  trator of the city, or their successors,  all  serving  ex-officio;  ten
    20  directors  shall be appointed by the mayor, five of whom shall be desig-
    21  nated by the city council of the city of New York and  shall  include  a
    22  representative  from each of the five boroughs; and the remaining direc-
    23  tor shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation. Such  chief

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  executive  officer  shall be chosen by the aforementioned fifteen direc-
     2  tors from persons other than themselves and shall serve at the  pleasure
     3  of  the  board.  The  terms  of the ten directors first appointed by the
     4  mayor, other than those serving ex-officio shall be as follows:
     5    Two  shall  serve  for  terms of one year each, one of whom shall have
     6  been designated by the city council;
     7    Two shall serve for terms of two years each, one of  whom  shall  have
     8  been designated by the city council;
     9    Two  shall serve for terms of three years each, one of whom shall have
    10  been designated by the city council;
    11    Two shall serve for terms of four years each, one of whom  shall  have
    12  been designated by the city council;
    13    Two  shall  serve for terms of five years each, one of whom shall have
    14  been designated by the city council;
    15  thereafter their successors shall serve for terms of  five  years  each.
    16  The  mayor  shall  fill  any vacancy which may occur by reason of death,
    17  resignation or otherwise  in  a  manner  consistent  with  the  original
    18  appointment.  Directors  may  be removed by the mayor for cause, but not
    19  without an opportunity to be heard.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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