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This bill requires the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation to allocate at least 5% of its budgets to each borough and mandates board representation from all five boroughs.
Why it matters
Ensures more equitable healthcare funding. By mandating that at least 5% of both the capital and operating budgets be spent in each borough, the bill aims to address potential disparities and guarantee a baseline of investment for healthcare infrastructure and services across all five boroughs.
Strengthens borough representation in decision-making. Requiring board membership from each borough increases the likelihood that local concerns and priorities will be heard and considered at the highest level of the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, potentially leading to more responsive governance.
Could improve access and quality in underserved areas. The minimum spending and representation requirements may help address historic underinvestment in certain boroughs, supporting efforts to reduce health inequities and improve acute care or emergency services citywide.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4878
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the New York city health and hospitals corporation act, in relation to the financing of acute care or emergency room facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 6 of section 1 of chapter 1016 of the laws of 1969, constituting the New York city health and hospitals corporation act, is amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
8. The corporation shall spend a minimum of five percent of the capital budget and five percent of the operating budget in each borough.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 4 of section 1 of chapter 1016 of the laws of 1969, constituting the New York city health and hospitals corporation act, is amended to read as follows:
1. A corporation, to be known as the "New York city health and hospitals corporation," is hereby created. Such corporation shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation. It shall be administered by a board of directors consisting of sixteen members, constituted as follows: five directors shall be the administrator, the commissioner appointed by the mayor as chief administrative officer of the health functions of the administration, the director of community mental health services of the administration, the administrator of human resources of the city, and the deputy mayor-city administrator of the city, or their successors, all serving ex-officio; ten directors shall be appointed by the mayor, five of whom shall be designated by the city council of the city of New York and shall include a representative from each of the five boroughs; and the remaining director shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation. Such chief executive officer shall be chosen by the aforementioned fifteen directors from persons other than themselves and shall serve at the pleasure
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of the board. The terms of the ten directors first appointed by the mayor, other than those serving ex-officio shall be as follows:
Two shall serve for terms of one year each, one of whom shall have been designated by the city council;
Two shall serve for terms of two years each, one of whom shall have been designated by the city council;
Two shall serve for terms of three years each, one of whom shall have been designated by the city council;
Two shall serve for terms of four years each, one of whom shall have been designated by the city council;
Two shall serve for terms of five years each, one of whom shall have been designated by the city council; thereafter their successors shall serve for terms of five years each. The mayor shall fill any vacancy which may occur by reason of death, resignation or otherwise in a manner consistent with the original appointment. Directors may be removed by the mayor for cause, but not without an opportunity to be heard.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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