Bill Text: NY S07601 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes representation on the New York state palliative care education and training council of social workers and home care; directs such council to examine and make recommendations relating to palliative care education and training at schools of nursing and social work.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-11 - SIGNED CHAP.318 [S07601 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7601
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 15, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  the  palliative
         care  education  and  training  council; and to direct such council to
         examine and make recommendations relating to such training and  educa-
         tion in nursing and social work schools
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of  section  2807-n  of  the
    2  public  health  law, as added by section 63-f of part C of chapter 58 of
    3  the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a) The New York state palliative care education and training  council
    5  is  established in the department as an expert panel in palliative medi-
    6  cine, education and training. Its members  shall  be  appointed  by  the
    7  commissioner.  The  commissioner shall seek recommendations for appoint-
    8  ments to such council from New  York  state-based  health  care  profes-
    9  sional, consumer, medical institutional and medical educational leaders.
   10  Members  of  the  council shall include: nine representatives of medical
   11  schools and hospital organizations; two representatives of medical acad-
   12  emies; two patient advocates; individual representatives of an organiza-
   13  tion broadly representative of  physicians,  internal  medicine,  family
   14  physicians,  nursing,  SOCIAL  WORK, hospice, HOME CARE, HEALTH COVERAGE
   15  PLANS,   neurology,   psychiatry,   pediatrics,   obstetrics-gynecology,
   16  surgery,  and  the  hospital  philanthropic community; and the executive
   17  director or a member of the governor's taskforce on life and the law and
   18  of the New York state council on  graduate  medical  education.  Members
   19  shall  have  expertise  in  palliative  care or pain management. Members
   20  shall serve a term of three years with renewable  terms.  Members  shall
   21  receive  no compensation for their services, but shall be allowed actual
   22  and necessary expenses in the performance of their duties.
   23    S 2. The palliative care education and  training  council  established
   24  pursuant  to  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 6 of section 2807-n of the
   25  public health law shall examine and make recommendations to the  commis-
   26  sioners  of health and education, the chancellor of the state university
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15272-01-4
       S. 7601                             2
    1  of New York, and the chairs of the senate  and  assembly  committees  on
    2  health,  education  and  higher  education  with  regard  to  the  need,
    3  approaches and resources to provide for palliative  care  education  and
    4  training  in state certified schools of nursing and social work, as well
    5  as in practice settings at the health care provider facility  or  agency
    6  level. In conducting the examination and making the recommendations, the
    7  council  shall also solicit and consider the input of representatives of
    8  such schools of nursing and social work. The council  shall  report  its
    9  examination and recommendations within 6 months of the effective date of
   10  this act.
   11    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.