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Prohibits regulations from permitting an owner to refuse to renew a lease on grounds that the housing is sought for personal use or occupancy; repealer

Prohibits certain regulations of the state division of housing and community renewal, for cities having a population of less than one million and towns and villages, from permitting an owner to…

Richard GottfriedHousing Committee

Provides that liquor authority may include certain terms and conditions as part of various licenses for on-premises consumption to assure premises lawfully operated

Provides that the state liquor authority may, with the consent of the applicant, include certain terms and conditions as part of various licenses for on-premises consumption of beer and liquor for…

Richard GottfriedEconomic Development Committee

Authorizes a general hospital to identify and use immediate measures to move admitted patients from emergency departments within four hours of being admitted

Authorizes a general hospital to identify and use immediate measures to move admitted patients from emergency departments within four hours of being admitted; provides that every general hospital…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to parentage of children born by medically-assisted reproduction

Relates to parentage of children born by medically-assisted reproduction; alters the term "artificial insemination" to be medically-assisted reproduction and defines such term to mean artificial…

Richard GottfriedJudiciary Committee

Makes provisions regarding conversion of medical or dental expense indemnity corporations or health services corporations to pecuniary profit organizations

Establishes requirements for conversion of medical or dental expense indemnity corporations or health or hospital service corporations from not-for-profit to corporations organized for pecuniary…

Richard GottfriedInsurance Committee

Relates to vacancies and illegal use and occupancy with regard to cooperative or condominium conversion plans

Relates to vacancies and illegal use and occupancy with regard to cooperative or condominium conversion plans; makes it unlawful to permit or maintain any illegal use or occupancy of a premises…

Richard GottfriedHousing Committee

Includes leaping from buildings and structures over five stories in height in certain cities within the crime of reckless endangerment

Includes leaping from buildings and structures over five stories in height in certain cities within the crime of reckless endangerment.

Richard GottfriedCodes Committee

Permits a physician assistant to certify the health of a person applying for a license to practice nail specialty, waxing, hair styling, esthetics or cosmetology

Permits a physician assistant to certify the health of a person applying for a license to practice nail specialty, waxing, hair styling, esthetics or cosmetology.

Richard GottfriedHigher Education Committee

Requires health coverage plans to include in provider networks certified nurse practitioners as primary health care providers

Requires health coverage plans covering health-care services to include in the provider networks certified nurse practitioners as primary health care providers.

Richard GottfriedInsurance Committee

Extends jurisdiction of N.Y. city fire department (and applicability of laws enforced) to cover MTA, NYCTA, their subsidiaries, and their N.Y. city facilities

Extends the jurisdiction of the New York city fire department, and the applicability of laws, rules and regulations to be enforced thereby, to cover the metropolitan transportation authority, the…

Richard GottfriedCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Allows for reimbursement of transportation costs for emergency care without prior authorization by the social services official

Allows for reimbursement of transportation costs for emergency care without prior authorization by the social services official including emergency medical transportation by an ambulance service…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Makes shipboard gambling a class E felony

Makes shipboard gambling a class E felony; makes exception for certain United States-flagged or foreign-flagged vessels.

Richard GottfriedCodes Committee

Authorizes the use of electronic medical records system when dispensing certain controlled substances

Authorizes the use of an electronic medical records system when dispensing certain controlled substances; defines "electronic medical records system"; authorizes physicians with patients receiving…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to requirements for the safe handling of prescription drug samples by certain health care professionals

Enacts requirements relating to the safe handling of prescription drug samples by certain health care professionals; requires maintenance of certain records and information regarding samples…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Regulates the payment of reimbursement where the insured has assigned his or her rights to an out-of-plan health care provider

Regulates the payment of reimbursement where the insured has assigned his or her rights to an out-of-plan health care provider.

Richard GottfriedInsurance Committee

Creates a certificate of need application tracking system

Creates a certificate of need application tracking system which is publicly accessible via the internet.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to the disclosure of medical records and clinical records

Establishes certain charges and fees authorized relative to requests for inspections and copying of medical records shall be deemed to be reasonable production expenses.

Richard GottfriedCodes Committee

Relates to adoption of rules and regulations by state and local government entities prior to the effective date of legislative acts

Permits the adoption of rules and regulations by state and local government entities prior to the effective date of an act of the legislature which necessitates such rules, regulations or actions.

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Relates to assisted living programs

Relates to regulation of assisted living and enhanced assisted living programs.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Requires health care practitioners that are licensed, certified or registered under the education law to comply with nonhospital orders not to resuscitate

Requires health care practitioners that are licensed, certified or registered under the education law to comply with nonhospital orders not to resuscitate; except that in the case of a health care…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Relates to rating of individual and small group health insurance contracts

Relates to rating of individual and small group health insurance contracts.

Richard GottfriedInsurance Committee

Relates to including certain written false statements within perjury

Includes certain written false statements within perjury where the instrument bears a notice that false statements are punishable.

Richard GottfriedCodes Committee

Enacts measures to provide for the resolution of disputes, creates the health insurance guaranty fund, and enacts other HMO reforms

Enacts measures to provide for the resolution of disputes; creates the health insurance guaranty fund, and enacts other HMO reforms with respect to third party requirements and coverages.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia

Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia; provides for the issuance of a certification to practice as a certified registered nurse anesthetist upon the filing of…

Richard GottfriedHigher Education Committee

Authorizes a physician assistant, acting under the supervision of a physician, to sign death certificates in like manner as physicians

Authorizes a physician assistant, acting under the supervision of a physician, to sign death certificates in like manner as physicians and imposes upon physician assistants the same duties that…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Provides for the use of funds allocated for emergency response training and programs

Provides for the timely use of funds allocated for emergency medical and trauma care, including disaster preparedness, response training and programs.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Authorizes the commissioner of correctional services to develop and implement programs in correctional facilities to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases

Authorizes the commissioner of correctional services, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to develop and implement programs in every correctional facility to prevent the spread of…

Richard GottfriedCorrection Committee

Provides cities may make their laws pertaining to building construction, operation, repair, removal applicable to buildings developed, owned, operated by state

Provides that where a city has enacted or adopted "local building ordinances", (i.e., local laws, ordinances, regulations or codes pertaining to the construction, operation, reconstruction,…

Richard GottfriedCities Committee

Makes provisions for the creation of dental health maintenance organizations and for including them in medicaid managed care

Authorizes creation of dental health maintenance organizations under article 44 of the public health law and includes them under medicaid managed care by providing that a managed care program may…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to direct access to school-based health centers under child health plus

Provides direct access for covered services to school-based health centers for eligible children under child health plus.

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Makes provisions relating to HIV testing, including consent for such testing, required offering for such testing, confidentiality and disclosure

Makes provisions relating to HIV testing, including consent for such testing, required offering for such testing, confidentiality and disclosure.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Establishes health care organization accountability for delay, failure or refusal to approve, provide, arrange or timely pay for certain health care services

Provides for accountability of "health care organizations" (i.e., entities, other than a health care provider, that approve, provide, arrange for or pay for health care services, including a health…

Richard GottfriedJudiciary Committee

Authorizes nurse practitioners to certify that an immunization may be detrimental to a child's health

Authorizes nurse practitioners to certify that an immunization may be detrimental to a child's health.

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Enacts provisions making changes to the vaccination requirements applicable to long term care facilities; repealer

Enacts provisions making changes to the vaccination requirements applicable to long term care facilities.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to the appointment of a temporary operator or voluntary receiver of adult care facilities, death and felony crime reports

Relates to the appointment of a temporary operator or voluntary receiver of adult care facilities, death and felony crime reports, ban on admissions and approval of applications for establishment of…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Authorizes physician assistants under the supervision of a physician to perform most medical services that such physician can perform

Clarifies the scope of practice of physician assistants to authorize such physician assistants, while under the supervision of a physician, to perform the medical services that the physician could…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Exempts an individual licensed as a dentist and a physician who engages in the practice of dentistry from requirements for office-based surgery

Exempts an individual licensed as a dentist and a physician who engages in the practice of dentistry from requirements for office-based surgery directed at physicians and physician's assistants.

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Provides for the phasing out of the registration requirements for specialist assistants

Provides for the phasing out of the registration requirements for specialist assistants beginning one year after the effective date of the section.

Richard GottfriedHigher Education Committee

Establishes an age-appropriate sex education grant program, to be referred to as the healthy teens act

Establishes an age-appropriate sex education grant program through the department of health to be a comprehensive age-appropriate program conducted by an eligible applicant; authorizes the…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Creates the anatomical gift act; repealer

Creates the anatomical gift act; repeals current provisions; enacts procedures for making anatomical gifts; widens the class of individuals authorized to make a gift after the donor's death;…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Provides for medical use of marihuana

Legalizes the possession, manufacture, use, delivery, transfer, transport or administration of marihuana by a certified patient or designated caregiver for a certified medical use; prescribes…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Establishes New York Health Plus to provide comprehensive health coverage to all New Yorkers

Establishes New York Health Plus to provide comprehensive health coverage to all New Yorkers; provides for a phase-in period for such program and requires the governor to submit a financing plan to…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to payment for police services provided to the New York city housing authority

Provides that the New York city housing authority shall not be required to pay for police services provided to the New York city housing authority by the city of New York.

Richard GottfriedHousing Committee

Relates to pre-natal programs and services; repealer

Relates to pre-natal programs and services.

Richard GottfriedSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Provides for review by the department of health of policies and practices regarding HIV, AIDS and HCV at correctional facilities

Authorizes and directs the department of health to review any policy or practice instituted in facilities operated by the department of correctional services and in local correctional facilities…

Richard GottfriedSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Enacts Nursing Care Quality Protection Act

Requires facilities to disclose nursing quality indicators; provides for facilities with an operating certificate to make available to the public information regarding nurse staffing and patient…

Richard GottfriedSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Sets forth an order of priority for organ donation and consent for such organ donation

Sets forth an order of priority for organ donation including the person designated as the decedent's health care agent subject to a health proxy form, the person designated as the decedent's agent…

Richard GottfriedSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Authorizes the purchase of coverage under family health plus by voluntary employee benefit associations

Authorizes the purchase of coverage under family health plus by designated sponsors; designated sponsor includes Taft-Hartley fund or voluntary employee benefit associations established in…

Richard GottfriedSigned by Governor

Signed into law