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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         7601--B
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 15, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 

        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, neurology, psychi-
    15  atry,  pediatrics,  obstetrics-gynecology,  surgery,  and  the  hospital
    16  philanthropic community; and the executive director or a member  of  the
    17  governor's taskforce on life and the law and of the New York state coun-
    18  cil  on  graduate  medical  education.  Members  shall have expertise in
    19  palliative care or pain management. Members shall serve a term of  three

    20  years  with  renewable  terms. Members shall receive no compensation for
    21  their services, but shall be allowed actual and  necessary  expenses  in
    22  the performance of their duties.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15272-04-4
        S. 7601--B                          2
 
     1    §  2.  The  palliative care education and training council established
     2  pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision 6  of  section  2807-n  of  the
     3  public  health law shall examine and make recommendations to the commis-
     4  sioners of health and education, the chancellor of the state  university
     5  of  New  York,  and  the chairs of the senate and assembly committees on

     6  health,  education  and  higher  education  with  regard  to  the  need,
     7  approaches  and  resources  to provide for palliative care education and
     8  training in state certified schools of nursing and social work, as  well
     9  as  in  practice settings at the health care provider facility or agency
    10  level. In conducting the examination and making the recommendations, the
    11  council shall also solicit and consider the input of representatives  of
    12  such schools of nursing and social work.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.