NY State Senate Bill 2011-S7166

Senate Bill S7166

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides for the financing of emergency room facilities in two hospitals in each borough by the New York city health and hospitals corporation

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Delivered to Governor
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May 01, 2012	referred to cities

2011-S7166 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A62
Current Committee:: Senate Cities
Law Section:: New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Act
Laws Affected:: Amd §§6 & 4, NYC Health & Hosp Corp Act
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S1810, A7404
2013-2014: S2481, A135
2015-2016: S3322, A5221
2017-2018: S2615, A3550
2019-2020: S3266, A936
2021-2022: S4974, A1014
2023-2024: S4210

2011-S7166 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the financing of emergency room facilities in two hospitals in each borough by the New York city health and hospitals corporation and requires representation on the board from each borough.

2011-S7166 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S7166

TITLE OF BILL:
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

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To provide for the financing of emergency room facilities in two
hospitals in each borough by the New York City Health and Hospitals
Corporation.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
This legislation amends Section 6 of § 1 of Chapter 1016 of the Laws
of 1969 - the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Act - by
adding a new subdivision 8 to provide that the corporation shall
finance the operation of at least two acute care or emergency room
facilities which are located in two separate hospitals in each
borough within the city.

EXISTING LAW:
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Act was created by
Chapter 1016 of the Laws of 1969.

JUSTIFICATION:
The New York City health and hospitals corporation act was adopted in

1969 and declared that "the provision and delivery of comprehensive
care and treatment of the ill and infirm, both physical and mental,
are of vital and paramount concern and essential to the protection
and promotion of the health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of
the State of New York and the City of New York." It further provided
that the New York City health and hospital corporation should be
created to provide such health and medical services and health
facilities. That corporation currently has at least 20 facilities
under its jurisdiction including: Kings County Hospital, Woodhull
Medical and Mental Health Center, and Coney Island Hospital in
Brooklyn; Harlem Hospital Center and Metropolitan Hospital Center in
Manhattan; Jacobi Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital in
the Bronx; as well as Elmhurst Hospital Center and Queens Hospital in
Queens.

Staten Island is a borough of nearly 12 million people without a
single NYC HHC hospital to meet the needs of the residents, as
proclaimed by the intent of the New York
City Health and Hospital Corporation act. The private facilities on
Staten Island cannot handle the burgeoning population on Staten
island without additional resources.

This legislation requires the City of New York to accept the
responsibility it was charged with more than 35 years ago and has
neglected to date: the care and treatment of the ill and infirm on

Staten Island. It will require the City to provide funding for at
least two hospital emergency rooms in each borough. (just as each
other borough has at least two such facilities). The bill requires
the City to merely provide the funding so that the City could pay the
existing hospitals on Staten Island to help expand their emergency
rooms to meet the needs of the people. It does not require the HHC to
build two hospitals. 'The legislation also mandates that at least one
of the members of the health and hospitals corporation reside in each
Borough. While that is the current makeup of the Board, there is
nothing currently in place to mandate such a common sense requirement.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2010: A.7404 - Died in Ways & Means
2008: A.3380 - Held for Consideration in Ways & Means
2006: A.8289 - Died in Corporations, Authorities & Commissions

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2011-S7166 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7166

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 1, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities

AN ACT to amend the New York city health and hospitals corporation  act,
  in  relation  to the financing of acute care or emergency room facili-
  ties

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, 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 FINANCE THE OPERATION OF AT LEAST  TWO  ACUTE
CARE  OR  EMERGENCY  ROOM  FACILITIES  WHICH ARE LOCATED IN TWO SEPARATE
HOSPITALS IN EACH BOROUGH WITHIN THE CITY.
  S 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 corpo-
ration act, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  A corporation, to be known as the "New York city health and hospi-
tals 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 administra-
tor,  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 administra-
tor of human resources of the city, and the deputy  mayor-city  adminis-
trator  of  the  city,  or their successors, all serving ex-officio; ten
directors shall be appointed by the mayor, five of whom shall be  desig-
nated  by  the  city council of the city of New York AND SHALL INCLUDE A
REPRESENTATIVE FROM EACH OF THE FIVE BOROUGHS; and the remaining  direc-
tor  shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation. Such chief
executive officer shall be chosen by the aforementioned  fifteen  direc-
tors  from persons other than themselves and shall serve at the pleasure
of the board. The terms of the ten  directors  first  appointed  by  the
mayor, other than those serving ex-officio shall be as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                           LBD00554-01-1

S. 7166                             2

  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.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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