Assembly Bill A3302

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Adds a representative of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers to the public health and health planning council

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Current Bill Status - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A3302 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6086
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §220, Pub Health L

2023-A3302 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of members of the public health and health planning council from 25 to 26; requires that a representative of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers be selected as a member of the public health and health planning council.

2023-A3302 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3302
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adding a represen-
   tative  of  freestanding  ambulatory  surgery  centers  to  the public
   health  and health planning council

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 220 of the public health law, as amended by chapter
 179 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   §  220.  Public  health  and  health  planning council; appointment of
 members. There shall continue to be in the department  a  public  health
 and  health planning council to consist of the commissioner and [twenty-
 five] TWENTY-SIX members to be appointed by the governor with the advice
 and consent of the senate. Membership on the council shall be reflective
 of the diversity of the state's population including,  but  not  limited
 to, the various geographic areas and population densities throughout the
 state.  The  members  shall include representatives of the public health
 system, health care providers that  comprise  the  state's  health  care
 delivery system, individuals with expertise in the clinical and adminis-
 trative  aspects  of  health care delivery, issues affecting health care
 consumers, health planning, health  care  financing  and  reimbursement,
 health care regulation and compliance, and public health practice and at
 least  two  members  shall  also  be  members  of  the behavioral health
 services advisory council; at least  four  members  shall  be  represen-
 tatives  of  general  hospitals  or  nursing homes; at least two members
 shall be representatives of health care consumer advocacy  organizations
 which  have  a statewide or regional constituency and have been involved
 in activities related to health care consumer advocacy including  issues
 of  interest  to  low- and moderate-income individuals; and at least one
 member shall be a  representative  of  each  of  the  following  groups:
 women's health service providers, home care agencies, FREESTANDING AMBU-
 LATORY  SURGERY  CENTERS,  diagnostic and treatment centers, health care
 payors, and labor organizations for health care employees.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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