Increases the number of members of the public health and health planning council from 25 to 26; requires that a representative of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers be selected as a member of the public health and health planning council.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6086
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 28, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- 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 adding a represen-
tative of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers to 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:
1 Section 1. Section 220 of the public health law, as amended by chapter
2 179 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 220. Public health and health planning council; appointment of
4 members. There shall continue to be in the department a public health
5 and health planning council to consist of the commissioner and [twenty-
6 five] twenty-six members to be appointed by the governor with the advice
7 and consent of the senate. Membership on the council shall be reflective
8 of the diversity of the state's population including, but not limited
9 to, the various geographic areas and population densities throughout the
10 state. The members shall include representatives of the public health
11 system, health care providers that comprise the state's health care
12 delivery system, individuals with expertise in the clinical and adminis-
13 trative aspects of health care delivery, issues affecting health care
14 consumers, health planning, health care financing and reimbursement,
15 health care regulation and compliance, and public health practice and at
16 least two members shall also be members of the behavioral health
17 services advisory council; at least four members shall be represen-
18 tatives of general hospitals or nursing homes; at least two members
19 shall be representatives of health care consumer advocacy organizations
20 which have a statewide or regional constituency and have been involved
21 in activities related to health care consumer advocacy including issues
22 of interest to low- and moderate-income individuals; and at least one
23 member shall be a representative of each of the following groups:
24 women's health service providers, home care agencies, freestanding ambu-
25 latory surgery centers, diagnostic and treatment centers, health care
26 payors, and labor organizations for health care employees.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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