Bill Text: NY S05458 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the operation of a diagnostic or treatment center within a retail business or employer health service space.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-18 - referred to health [S05458 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05458-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5458--C 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 14, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HANNON, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing the establishment of limited service clinics The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2801-a of the public health law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows: 3 17. (a) Diagnostic or treatment centers established to provide health 4 care services within the space of a retail business operation, such as a 5 pharmacy or a store open to the general public, or within space used by 6 an employer for providing health care services to its employees, may be 7 operated by legal entities formed under the laws of the state of New 8 York: (i) whose stockholders or members, as applicable, are not natural 9 persons; (ii) whose principal stockholders and members, as applicable, 10 and controlling persons comply with all applicable requirements of this 11 section; and (iii) that demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the public 12 health and health planning council, sufficient experience and expertise 13 in delivering high quality health care services, and further demonstrate 14 a commitment to operate limited services clinics in medically under- 15 served areas of the state. Such diagnostic and treatment centers shall 16 be referred to in this section as "limited services clinics". EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11104-05-6
