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A08536 Summary:

A08536 Actions:

A08536 Committee Votes:

Committee:HEALTH   Chair:Gottfried      
DATE:01/11/2022AYE/NAY:26/0  Action: Favorable         
Gottfried
Aye
Byrne
Aye
Galef
Aye
McDonough
Aye
Dinowitz
Aye
Byrnes
Aye
Cahill
Aye
Ashby
Aye
Paulin
Aye
Miller
Aye
Cymbrowitz
Aye
Salka
Aye
Gunther
Aye
Jensen
Aye
Rosenthal L 
Aye
Hevesi
Aye
Steck
Aye
Abinanti
Aye
Braunstein
Aye
Solages
Aye
Bichotte Hermel
Aye
Sayegh
Aye
Rosenthal D 
Aye
McDonald
Aye
Reyes
Aye
Gonzalez-Rojas
Aye

A08536 Floor Votes:

A08536 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
 submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)



 
BILL NUMBER: A8536
 
SPONSOR: Gottfried

 
TITLE OF BILL:
 
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to adding a represen-
tative of women's health service providers on the public health and
health planning council
 
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
 
To add a representative of women's health service providers to the
public health and health planning council.
 
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
 
Section 1 amends Public Health Law § 220 to raise the number of
appointed members of the Public Health and Health Planning Council
(PHHPC) from 24 to 25, and to require that additional member to be a
representative of women's health service providers.
 
Section 2 is the effective date: immediate.
 
 
JUSTIFICATION:
 
PHHPC makes decisions and recommendations to the Commissioner of Health
regarding health care facility establishment, transfer, construction,
and Services, and Health Department regulations. PHHPC currently has 24
members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the
Senate. About half of the appointed members represent specific catego-
ries, such as nursing homes, behavioral health, and insurance companies;
the other members are chosen from an extremely broad category encompass-
ing practically the entirety of health care provision and payment.
 
Currently, no member of PHHPC is required to have any expertise in
women's health or facilities specializing in the care of women. The
female half of the population has extensive unique health care issues
and needs. PHHPC reviews applications for health care facilities like
birth centers and reproductive health care clinics. Therefore, it is
important that at least one member represent providers of women's health
care services.
 
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
 
New bill.
 
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
 
None.
 
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

A08536 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8536
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    December 13, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adding a represen-
          tative of women's health service providers 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:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 220 of the public health law, as amended by chapter
     2  42 of the laws of 2021, 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 [fourteen
     6  members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and  consent  of
     7  the  senate;  provided  that effective December first, two thousand ten,
     8  the membership of the council shall  consist  of  the  commissioner  and
     9  twenty-four]  twenty-five  members  to be appointed by the governor with
    10  the advice and consent of the senate. Membership on the council shall be
    11  reflective of the diversity of the state's population including, but not
    12  limited to,  the  various  geographic  areas  and  population  densities
    13  throughout  the  state. The members shall include representatives of the
    14  public health system, health care providers that  comprise  the  state's
    15  health  care delivery system, individuals with expertise in the clinical
    16  and administrative aspects of health  care  delivery,  issues  affecting
    17  health  care  consumers,  health  planning,  health  care  financing and
    18  reimbursement, health care regulation and compliance, and public  health
    19  practice  and  at  least two members shall also be members of the behav-
    20  ioral health services advisory council; at least four members  shall  be
    21  representatives  of  general  hospitals  or  nursing homes; at least two
    22  members shall be representatives of health care consumer advocacy organ-
    23  izations which have a statewide or regional constituency and  have  been
    24  involved  in activities related to health care consumer advocacy includ-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13821-02-1
        A. 8536                             2
 
     1  ing issues of interest to low- and moderate-income individuals;  and  at
     2  least  one  member  shall  be  a representative of each of the following
     3  groups: women's health service providers, home care agencies, diagnostic
     4  and  treatment  centers, health care payors, and labor organizations for
     5  health care employees.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.