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Assembly Bill A8536

Signed By Governor

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Adds a representative of women's health service providers on the public health and health planning council

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2021-A8536 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7628
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §220, Pub Health L

2021-A8536 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds a representative of women's health service providers on the public health and health planning council.

2021-A8536 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8536
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adding a represen-
   tative of women's health service providers on 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
 42 of the laws of 2021, 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 [fourteen
 members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and  consent  of
 the  senate;  provided  that effective December first, two thousand ten,
 the membership of the council shall  consist  of  the  commissioner  and
 twenty-four]  TWENTY-FIVE  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 administrative 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 behav-
 ioral health services advisory council; at least four members  shall  be
 representatives  of  general  hospitals  or  nursing homes; at least two
 members shall be representatives of health care consumer advocacy organ-
 izations which have a statewide or regional constituency and  have  been
 involved  in activities related to health care consumer advocacy includ-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13821-02-1

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