Sponsored bills

Relates to referrals of patients for health related items or services

Relates to referrals of patients for health related items or services.

Richard GottfriedVetoed

Vetoed

Waives interest and penalties due on surcharges and assessments due prior to January 1, 2012, relating to payments to health care providers

Waives interest and penalties due on surcharges and assessments due prior to January 1, 2012, relating to payments to health care providers.

Richard GottfriedVetoed

Vetoed

Disqualifies providers for receipt of monies for recruitment and retention of non-supervisory workers, when such monies are not provided to home health agencies

Disqualifies providers for receipt of monies for the improvement of recruitment and retention of non-supervisory workers providing home health services, when such monies are not provided to the…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Relates to enhancing the quality of adult living program for adult care facilities

Relates to enhancing the quality of adult living program for adult care facilities(EQUAL); limits use of certain funds; requires residents' input; prohibits use for daily operating expenses.

Richard GottfriedRules Committee

Establishes the nurse practitioners modernization act

Establishes the nurse practitioners modernization act which allows the practice of registered professional nursing by a certified nurse practitioner to include diagnosis and performance without…

Richard GottfriedRules Committee

Authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants to be used to help pay for the costs of conducting local blood drives

Authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants to not-for-profit organizations and elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools to be used to help pay for the costs of conducting local…

Richard GottfriedRules Committee

Relates to long term home health care program enhancement

Relates to long term home health care program enhancement; expands availability thereto; provides for prospective payment methodology.

Richard GottfriedRules Committee

Provides for establishment of the New York Health plan and makes an appropriation to the temporary commission on implementation of the plan

Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents: provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and…

Richard GottfriedWays And Means Committee

Relates to the boundaries and uses of the Hudson river park

Relates to the boundaries and uses of the Hudson river park.

Richard GottfriedCities Committee

Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants for certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions/diseases

Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants to eligible applicants to provide certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions or diseases.

Richard GottfriedRules Committee

Legalizes the possession, manufacture, use, delivery, transfer, transport or administration of marihuana by a certified patient or designated caregiver

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

Richard GottfriedRules Committee

Relates to the applicability of local laws of certain cities to buildings owned, leased or operated by the state or its agencies

Relates to the applicability of local building codes to state and state agency owned buildings; requires full compliance upon alteration or if such building ceases to be owned by the state.

Richard GottfriedCodes Committee

Includes health care facilities operated or supervised by the department of correctional services or local correctional facilities within the definition of hospital

Includes health care facilities or part of a facility operated or supervised by the department of correctional services or by local correctional facilities within the definition of hospital for the…

Richard GottfriedRules Committee

Prohibits participation in torture and improper treatment of prisoners by health care professionals

Prohibits participation in torture and improper treatment of prisoners by health care professionals; prohibits a health care professional from engaging, assisting, planning the torture or improper…

Richard GottfriedRules Committee

Requires health care providers to disclose errors in diagnosis, treatment, services that provider knows has caused substantial harm or significant risk thereof

Requires health care providers (i.e., an entity licensed/certified under certain articles of the public health law or the mental hygiene law, a health care practitioner licensed/registered/certified…

Richard GottfriedRules Committee

Honoring the recipients of the LeadingAge New York 2012 Long Term Care Employees of Distinction Awards

Richard GottfriedAdopted

Adopted

Allows vesting of a health care proxy authority without incapacity of ward

Relates to individuals allowing their health care agents' authority to vest immediately, without a determination of incapacity.

Richard GottfriedCodes Committee

Provides for the licensing of physician assistants and the continued registration of specialist assistants

Provides for the licensing of physician assistants and the continued registration of specialist assistants.

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Requires every general hospital to have a community advisory board

Requires every general hospital to have a community advisory board.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression and includes offenses regarding gender identity or expression under the hate crimes statute

Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression; defines "gender identity or expression" as having or being perceived as having a gender identity, self image, appearance, behavior or…

Richard GottfriedInvestigations And Government Operations 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

Authorizes the commissioner of correctional services to develop 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 GottfriedWays And Means Committee

Authorizes the commissioner of health to develop and administer training programs for coroners, coroners' physicians and medical examiners

Authorizes the commissioner of health to develop and administer training programs for coroners, coroners' physicians and medical examiners; provides for the making of regulations for minimum…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to the special advisory review panel on Medicaid managed care

Relates to the membership and expands the duties of the special advisory review panel on Medicaid managed care by including other managed care programs.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Makes warrant execution, not issuance, following judgment for petitioner in summary proceeding to recover possession of real property act which annuls relationship

Makes warrant execution (not issuance), following a judgment for the petitioner in summary proceeding to recover possession of real property, the act which cancels the agreement under which the…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Provides for pharmacy benefit management and the procurement of prescription drugs at a negotiated rate for dispensation

Provides for pharmacy benefit management and the procurement of prescription drugs to be dispensed to patients, or the administration or management of prescription drug benefits; sets forth…

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

Limits the definition of "estate", for purposes of medical assistance, to all property and assets in an individual's estate and passing under a will or by intestacy

Limits the definition of "estate", for purposes of medical assistance, to all property and assets in an individual's estate and passing under a will or by intestacy.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Directs the Medicaid inspector general to publish all administrative law decisions from an appeal by his or her office

Directs the Medicaid inspector general to publish all administrative law decisions from an appeal of an action by his or her office.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Directs health care professionals to provide pain-relieving medications to the extent authorized by accepted professional guidelines

Requires health care professionals to order, prescribe, administer and dispense pain-relieving medications in accordance with professional standards and guidelines.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to certain prohibitions in contracts or agreements by health maintenance organizations

Relates to certain prohibitions in contracts or agreements by health maintenance organizations; prohibits clauses which entitle reimbursement at the lowest price or rate; prohibits contracts which…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Provides that the commissioner of health may exempt certain brand name drugs so that they fall under medical assistance umbrella

Provides that the commissioner of health may exempt certain brand name drugs so that they fall under medical assistance umbrella.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Provides person/entity with authority to operate a hospital shall be subject to approval by public health and health planning council for establishment of hospital and other actions

Makes various provisions regarding establishment of a hospital: provides that any person and various other listed entities (i.e., partnership, company, stockholder, member, corporation or other…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

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

Extends the protections of the medical exemption from mandatory immunizations for students

Extends the protections of the medical exemption from mandatory immunizations for students to ensure deference to the professional assessments of physicians and nurse practitioners in the care of…

Richard GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Relates to the adult care facilities training program

Relates to the adult care facilities training program; requires a minimum of 40 hours of training for direct care staff.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Prohibits disclosure of testimony of a party to a health care quality assurance or peer review proceeding

Prohibits the disclosure and discovery of the testimony of a party to a health care quality assurance or peer review proceeding; further adds the failure to cooperate and participate in the quality…

Richard GottfriedCodes Committee

Subjects nursing homes not providing basic standards of care to nursing home diversion

Subjects nursing homes not providing basic standards of care for a period of at least forty-eight consecutive hours to nursing home diversion; requires such home to immediately notify the department…

Richard GottfriedWays And Means 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 GottfriedOn the Assembly floor

Provides that an affirmation of a health care practitioner may be served or filed in an action in lieu of and with same force and effect as an affidavit

Provides that an affirmation of a health care practitioner may be served or filed in an action in lieu of and with same force and effect as an affidavit (changes the current reference in existing…

Richard GottfriedJudiciary 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 GottfriedInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Relates to the reduction in unemployment benefits where a claimant is retiring

Provides that the reduction in unemployment benefits for a claimant who is retiring shall not apply to benefits which when paid will be chargeable to the account held by multiple employers who…

Richard GottfriedLabor Committee

Requires health care professional undergraduate, graduate and continuing education in chronic pain management and treatment

Requires clinical education in pain management; requires every physician, physician assistant and specialist assistant practicing in the state to complete course work and training regarding pain…

Richard GottfriedStricken

Relates to the appointment of a temporary operator or voluntary receiver of adult care facilities

Relates to the appointment of a temporary operator or voluntary receiver of adult care facilities.

Richard GottfriedSocial Services Committee

Regulates the scope, manner and performance of review of claims by utilization review agents

Regulates the scope, manner and performance of review of claims by utilization review agents; provides that denial of coverage for emergency services is not based solely on final diagnosis.

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to the definition of a clinical peer reviewer

Relates to the definition of a clinical peer reviewer by clarifying that such term shall be applicable for the entire utilization review and external appeal article and means either a physician or a…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Provides for additional remedies for patients' private right of actions in residential health care facilities

Provides for additional remedies for patients' private right of actions in residential health care facilities; allows class actions by patients, patient's legal representative, or such patient's…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Relates to rights of residents of adult care facilities

Relates to rights of residents of adult care facilities.

Richard GottfriedSocial Services Committee