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A06017 Summary:
BILL NO | A06017 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S03449 |
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SPONSOR | Paulin |
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COSPNSR | Sayegh |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §230, Pub Health L | |
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Grants immunity from liability to organizations which establish physician committees the purpose of which is to confront and refer to treatment physicians who are thought to be suffering from addiction or mental illness. |
A06017 Actions:
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03/30/2023 | referred to health | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
04/18/2023 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
04/20/2023 | advanced to third reading cal.145 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
04/26/2023 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
04/26/2023 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
04/26/2023 | REFERRED TO HEALTH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/31/2023 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S3449 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/31/2023 | 3RD READING CAL.849 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/31/2023 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/31/2023 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10/13/2023 | delivered to governor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10/25/2023 | signed chap.567 |
A06017 Committee Votes:
Paulin | Aye | Jensen | Aye | ||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | McDonough | Excused | ||||||
Gunther | Aye | Byrnes | Aye | ||||||
Rosenthal L | Aye | Gandolfo | Aye | ||||||
Hevesi | Aye | Mikulin | Aye | ||||||
Steck | Aye | Blumencranz | Aye | ||||||
Braunstein | Aye | Bendett | Aye | ||||||
Solages | Aye | Gray | Aye | ||||||
Bichotte Hermel | Aye | ||||||||
Sayegh | Aye | ||||||||
Rosenthal D | Aye | ||||||||
McDonald | Aye | ||||||||
Reyes | Aye | ||||||||
Gonzalez-Rojas | Aye | ||||||||
Rajkumar | Aye | ||||||||
Forrest | Aye | ||||||||
Kelles | Aye | ||||||||
Lucas | Excused | ||||||||
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A06017 Floor Votes:
Yes
Alvarez
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Flood
Yes
Kim
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Simpson
Yes
Anderson
Yes
Chandler-Waterm
Yes
Forrest
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Slater
Yes
Angelino
Yes
Chang
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lee
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ardila
Yes
Clark
Yes
Gallagher
Yes
Lemondes
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Colton
Yes
Gallahan
Yes
Levenberg
Yes
Pirozzolo
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Conrad
Yes
Gandolfo
Yes ‡
Lucas
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gibbs
Yes
Lunsford
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stern
Yes
Beephan
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Giglio JA
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Raga
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Bendett
Yes
Cunningham
Yes
Giglio JM
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Rajkumar
Yes
Tague
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Curran
Yes
Glick
Yes
Maher
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Tannousis
ER
Bichotte Hermel
Yes
Darling
Yes
Gonzalez-Rojas
Yes
Mamdani
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tapia
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
Davila
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blumencranz
Yes
De Los Santos
Yes
Gray
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Bores
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Gunther
Yes ‡
McDonough
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Brabenec
Yes ‡
Dickens
Yes
Hawley
Yes
McGowan
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Walker
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Meeks
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Brook-Krasny
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Brown E
Yes
Durso
Yes
Jackson
Yes
Miller
Yes ‡
Seawright
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Brown K
Yes
Eachus
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Mitaynes
Yes
Septimo
Yes
Williams
Yes
Burdick
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Shimsky
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Burgos
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jensen
Yes
Norris
Yes
Shrestha
Yes
Zaccaro
Yes
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Jones
Yes
Novakhov
Yes
Sillitti
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
Yes
Joyner
ER
O'Donnell
Yes
Simon
Yes
Zinerman
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Kelles
Yes
Otis
Yes
Simone
Yes
Mr. Speaker
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A06017 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6017 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 30, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to granting immunity from liability to organizations which establish physician committees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 11 of section 230 of the 2 public health law, as added by chapter 426 of the laws of 1983, subpara- 3 graphs (ii) and (iii) as amended by chapter 606 of the laws of 1991, 4 subparagraphs (v) and (vi) as added by chapter 582 of the laws of 1984, 5 is amended to read as follows: 6 (g) (i) Any physician committee of the Medical Society of the State of 7 New York, the New York State Osteopathic Society or a county medical 8 society referred to in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of this subdi- 9 vision shall develop procedures in consultation with, and approved by, 10 the commissioner [of the department of health], including but not limit- 11 ed to the following: 12 [(i)] (A) The committee shall disclose at least once a month such 13 information as the director of the office of professional medical 14 conduct may deem appropriate regarding reports received, contacts or 15 investigations made and the disposition of each report, provided however 16 that the committee shall not disclose any personally identifiable infor- 17 mation except as provided in [subparagraph (ii)] clause (B) or [subpara-18graph (iii)] (C) of this [paragraph] subparagraph. 19 [(ii)] (B) The committee shall immediately report to the director the 20 name, all information obtained and the results of any contact or inves- 21 tigation regarding any physician who is believed to be an imminent 22 danger to the public. 23 [(iii)] (C) The committee shall report to the director in a timely 24 fashion all information obtained regarding any physician who refuses to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06140-01-3A. 6017 2 1 cooperate with the committee, refuses to submit to treatment, or whose 2 impairment is not substantially alleviated through treatment. 3 [(iv)] (D) The committee shall inform each physician who is partic- 4 ipating in a program of the procedures followed in the program, of the 5 rights and responsibilities of the physician in the program and of the 6 possible results of noncompliance with the program. 7 [(v)] (ii) No member of any such committee; nor the Medical Society of 8 the State of New York, the New York State Osteopathic Society or a coun- 9 ty medical society referred to in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of 10 this subdivision that establishes a committee; nor any agent, servant, 11 representative or employee that provides service to any such committee 12 or society, shall be liable for damages to any person for any action 13 taken by such committee, society, member, agent, servant, representative 14 or employee provided that such action was taken without malice and with- 15 in the scope of such [member's] individual's or entity's function [as a16member of] in relation to such committee. 17 [(vi)] (iii) The committee, in conjunction with the director of the 18 office of professional medical conduct, shall develop appropriate 19 consent forms and disclosure proceedings as may be necessary under any 20 federal statute, rule or regulation in order to permit the disclosure of 21 the information as may be required under [subparagraphs (ii)] clauses 22 (B) and [(iii)] (C) of subparagraph (i) of this paragraph. 23 (iv) Except as [herein] provided in this paragraph and notwithstanding 24 any other provision of law, neither the proceedings nor the records of 25 any such physician committee shall be subject to disclosure under arti- 26 cle thirty-one of the civil practice law and rules nor shall any member 27 of any such committee nor any person in attendance at any such meeting 28 be required to testify as to what transpired thereat. 29 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, that the amend- 30 ments to paragraph (g) of subdivision 11 of section 230 of the public 31 health law, made by section one of this act, shall not affect the repeal 32 of such paragraph, and shall be deemed repealed therewith; and provided, 33 further, that the amendments to subparagraphs (v) and (vi) of paragraph 34 (g) of subdivision 11 of section 230 of the public health law, made by 35 section one of this act, shall not affect the repeal of such subpara- 36 graphs, and shall be deemed repealed therewith.