What's happening
This bill increases the Public Health and Health Planning Council membership to 26 and adds requirements for health care consumer advocacy representation.
Why it matters
Strengthens the voice of health care consumers. by specifically requiring at least three council members to represent advocacy organizations focused on consumers, especially those concerned with low- and moderate-income populations.
Increases the council’s size and diversity. , which may help ensure broader perspectives and more balanced policy recommendations regarding public health and health care planning in New York State.
May shift the council’s priorities. by giving more formal influence to groups advocating for patient rights and affordability, potentially affecting how health care regulations and policies are shaped.
Could improve accountability and transparency. within the state’s health care planning process, as consumer advocacy groups often push for more public input and oversight.
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History
- Approval memo.35
- Signed chap.326
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 45–15
- 3rd reading cal.423
- Substituted for S7304
- Referred to health
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.411
- Reported
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- Referred to health
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Add Advocates to Health Council
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Brad Hoylman-Sigal
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STATE OF NEW YORK
9530
IN ASSEMBLY
January 24, 2020
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 membership on the public health and health planning council
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 220 of the public health law, as amended by section 7 of part N of chapter 56 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
§ 220. Public health and health planning council; appointment of members. There shall continue to be in the department a public health and health planning council to consist of the commissioner and fourteen members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate; provided that effective December first, two thousand ten, the membership of the council shall consist of the commissioner and [twenty-four] twenty-six members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Membership on the council shall be reflective of the diversity of the state's population including, but not limited to, the various geographic areas and population densities throughout the state. The members shall include representatives of the public health system, health care providers that comprise the state's health care delivery system, individuals with expertise in the clinical and administrative aspects of health care delivery, issues affecting health care consumers, health planning, health care financing and reimbursement, health care regulation and compliance, and public health practice and at least two members shall also be members of the behavioral health services advisory council; at least four members shall be representatives of general hospitals or nursing homes; at least three members shall be representatives of health care consumer advocacy organizations which have a statewide or regional constituency and have been involved in activities related to health care consumer advocacy including issues of interest to low- and moderate-income individuals; and at least one member shall be a representative of each of the following groups: home care agencies, diagnostic and treatment centers, health
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[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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care payors, and labor organizations for health care employees[, and health care consumer advocacy organizations].
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all members of the public health and health planning council appointed or re-appointed on and after that date.
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