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                                    869
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  the  amount  of
   members 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 a chap-
 ter of the laws of 2020, amending the  public  health  law  relating  to
 membership on the public health and health planning council, as proposed
 in  legislative  bills  numbers S.7304 and A.9530, 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-six] TWENTY-FOUR 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  [three]
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07151-01-1

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 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 follow-
 ing groups:   home care  agencies,  diagnostic  and  treatment  centers,
 health care payors, and labor organizations for health care employees.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the public health  law
 relating to membership on the public health and health planning council,
 as  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.7304  and A.9530, takes
 effect.