senate Bill S1197

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the primary care reform commission

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Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Mar 20, 2023 advanced to third reading
Mar 16, 2023 2nd report cal.
Mar 15, 2023 1st report cal.519
Jan 10, 2023 referred to health

Votes

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Mar 14, 2023 - Health committee Vote

S1197
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committee
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Aye
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Nay
3
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
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Health Committee Vote: Mar 14, 2023

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S1197 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 29-AA Art Head, add §2959-b, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S6534

S1197 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the primary care reform commission to review, examine, and make findings on the level of primary care spending by all payers in the context of all health care spending in the state and publish an annual report on the findings, and also make recommendations to increase and strengthen spending on primary care in the state and improve primary care infrastructure, taking care to avoid increasing costs to patients or the total cost of health care.

S1197 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S1197 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1197
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. RIVERA, BROUK, COONEY, MAY, MYRIE, RAMOS, SEPULVEDA
   -- 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  establishing  the
   primary care reform commission

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The article heading of article 29-AA of the  public  health
 law, as added by section 35 of part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011,
 is amended to read as follows:
              PATIENT CENTERED MEDICAL HOMES AND PRIMARY CARE
   §  2.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2959-b
 to read as follows:
   § 2959-B. PRIMARY CARE REFORM COMMISSION.  1.  (A)  COMMISSION  ESTAB-
 LISHED.  THE PRIMARY CARE REFORM COMMISSION, REFERRED TO IN THIS SECTION
 AS THE "COMMISSION",  IS  HEREBY  ESTABLISHED  IN  THE  DEPARTMENT.  THE
 COMMISSION  SHALL  REVIEW,  EXAMINE,  AND  MAKE FINDINGS ON THE LEVEL OF
 PRIMARY CARE SPENDING BY ALL PAYERS IN THE CONTEXT OF  ALL  HEALTH  CARE
 SPENDING  IN  THE STATE, AND SHALL PUBLISH AN ANNUAL REPORT ON THE FIND-
 INGS. THE COMMISSION SHALL ALSO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO INCREASE  SPEND-
 ING  ON  PRIMARY  CARE AND STRENGTHEN PRIMARY CARE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE
 STATE, TAKING CARE TO AVOID INCREASING COSTS TO PATIENTS  OR  THE  TOTAL
 COST OF HEALTH CARE.
   (B) COMPOSITION AND POWERS. (I) THE COMMISSION SHALL CONSIST OF:
   (1)  THE  COMMISSIONER  AND  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
 FINANCIAL SERVICES, WHO MAY BE REPRESENTED BY  THEIR  RESPECTIVE  DESIG-
 NEES;
   (2) SEVEN MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR; AND
   (3)  EIGHT  MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR AS FOLLOWS: THREE ON THE
 RECOMMENDATION OF THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, THREE ON THE  RECOMMENDA-
 TION OF THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, ONE ON THE RECOMMENDATION
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03591-01-3

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