What's happening
This bill requires New York hospitals to consider guidelines for procuring environmentally sensitive commodities and services, and mandates related reporting and listings.
Why it matters
Pushes hospitals to weigh environmental and public health impacts when purchasing goods and services. , not just cost or clinical need—potentially shifting industry standards toward more sustainable options.
Mandates state agencies to develop, update, and share detailed guidelines and sample lists of eco-friendly products and services. giving hospitals clearer direction and making it easier to identify practical, safer alternatives.
Requires tracking and public reporting on how these guidelines affect hospital procurement choices. , offering transparency, enabling policymakers to assess progress, and potentially informing future environmental or health regulations.
Creates a centralized, publicly available list of vendors supplying environmentally sensitive products and services. , which could open up new markets for green businesses and streamline hospital efforts to buy sustainably.
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Who cares
Hospital administrators and purchasing teams
Every hospital would have to consider state environmental guidelines, specifications and a sample product and service list when making purchasing decisions.
Office of General Services and Department of Health
The agencies would develop hospital procurement guidelines and jointly report on their impact on hospital purchasing practices.
Hospital construction and renovation contractors
The guidelines would cover materials used in hospital construction, renovation and repairs, including items procured by contractors.
Suppliers of environmentally sensitive goods and services
The bill would require maintaining a list of firms offering hospital-use commodities and services that meet the state guidelines or specifications.
Headline styles
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Sponsors
4 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4562
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, DINOWITZ, ORTIZ, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the state finance law, in relation to the procurement and use of environmentally sensitive commodities and services by hospitals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2805-z to read as follows:
§ 2805-z. Procurement and use of environmentally sensitive commodities and services. 1. For the purposes of this section the following terms shall mean:
(a) "Environmentally sensitive commodities and services" means those commodities and services that minimize adverse impacts on the public health and the environment as determined by the commissioner of general services.
(b) "Commodity" or "commodities" means materials, goods, supplies, products, construction items and other standard articles of commerce other than technology.
(c) "Construction item" means any item or material used in construction and which is procured directly by a hospital or by a person under contract by a hospital.
(d) "Service" or "services" means the performance of a task or tasks and may include a material good or a quantity of material goods, and which is subject of any purchase or other exchange. For the purposes of this section, technology shall be deemed a service.
2. The commissioner of general services, in consultation with the commissioner, shall establish and from time to time amend guidelines and specifications for environmentally sensitive commodities and services for use in hospitals; and for use in the construction, renovation or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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repair of hospital buildings and related facilities. Such guidelines shall be used to identify environmentally sensitive commodities and services which are available in the form, function and utility generally used by such facilities. Such commissioners shall review and evaluate existing research regarding environmentally sensitive commodities and services, including but not limited to, the United States environmental protection agency's guidelines for environmentally sensitive commodities and services, for the purpose of developing appropriate criteria for such guidelines and specifications.
3. The commissioner of general services shall disseminate to all hospitals guidelines and specifications for the purchase or use of environmentally sensitive commodities and services in hospitals; and for use in the construction, renovation or repair of hospital buildings and related facilities. The commissioner of general services shall also prepare and disseminate to all hospitals a sample list of such environmentally sensitive commodities and services that meet these guidelines or specifications and their environmental and health benefits. Every hospital shall consider such guidelines, specifications and sample list when making determinations as to the purchase of commodities, construction items or services for use in the hospital, or for use in the construction, renovation, or repair of hospital buildings.
4. On or before June first, two thousand twenty-one, the office of general services and the department shall jointly issue a report providing an analysis of the impact of such guidelines and specifications on the purchasing and procurement practices of hospitals.
§ 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 163 of the state finance law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xiii) to read as follows:
(xiii) maintain a list of firms which produce or manufacture or offer for sale environmentally sensitive commodities and services in the form, function, and utility generally used by hospitals in accordance with specifications or guidelines promulgated pursuant to section twentyeight hundred five-z of the public health law.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law; provided that the amendment to paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 163 of the state finance law, made by section two of this act, shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
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