NY State Senate Bill 2017-S2615

Senate Bill S2615

2017-2018 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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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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- Passed Assembly
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Delivered to Governor
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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 20, 2018	committed to rules
Mar 13, 2018	advanced to third reading
Mar 12, 2018	2nd report cal.
Mar 06, 2018	1st report cal.584
Jan 03, 2018	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions returned to senate died in assembly
Feb 13, 2017	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions delivered to assembly passed senate
Feb 07, 2017	advanced to third reading
Feb 06, 2017	2nd report cal.
Jan 31, 2017	1st report cal.140
Jan 13, 2017	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

Votes

- Feb 13, 2017 - Floor Vote
  S2615
  
  59
  
  Aye
  
  2
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  2
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Feb 13, 2017
      
      aye (59)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Alcantara
      
      Avella
      
      Bailey
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Croci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hannon
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jacobs
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Latimer
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Persaud
      
      Phillips
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      nay (2)
      
      Krueger
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      excused (2)
      
      Amedore
      
      Perkins
  Mar 6, 2018 - Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee Vote
  S2615
  
  6
  
  Aye
  
  1
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee Vote: Mar 6, 2018
      
      aye (6)
      
      Alcantara
      
      Amedore
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Larkin
      
      Ortt
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      nay (1)
      
      Comrie
  Jan 31, 2017 - Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee Vote
  S2615
  
  5
  
  Aye
  
  1
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee Vote: Jan 31, 2017
      
      aye (5)
      
      Alcantara
      
      Amedore
      
      Larkin
      
      Ortt
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      nay (1)
      
      Perkins
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Squadron

co-Sponsors

2017-S2615 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3550
Current Committee:: Senate Rules
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
2011-2012: S7166, A62
2013-2014: S2481, A135
2015-2016: S3322, A5221
2019-2020: S3266, A936
2021-2022: S4974, A1014
2023-2024: S4210

2017-S2615 (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.

2017-S2615 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S2615            REVISED MEMO 01/08/2018

SPONSOR: LANZA
 
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 hospi-
tals in each borough by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corpo-
ration.

 
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
1959 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 popu-
lation on Staten Island without additional resources.

This legislation requires the City of New York to accept the responsi-
bility it was charged with more than 35 years ago and has neglected to
date: the are and treatment of the ill and infirm on Staten Island. It
will require the city to provide funding for at least two hospital emer-
gency rooms in each borough. 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.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017: S.2615 - Passed Senate / A.3550 - Referred to Corporations
2016: S.3222 - Passed Senate / A.5221 - Reported to Ways & Means
2015: S.3322 - 3rd Reading Calendar / A.5221 - Reported to Ways & Means
2014: S.2481 - Referred to Cities / A.135 Referred to Ways and Means
2013: S.2481 - Referred to Cities / A.135 Referred to Ways and Means
2012: S.7166 - Referred to Cities /- Reported to Ways and Means
2011: A.62 - Referred to Corporations
2010: S.2481 - Referred to Cities/ A.135 Referred to Ways and Means
2009: S.2481 - Referred to Cities/ A.135 Referred to Corporations
2008: S.3033 - Referred to Cities/ A.3380 Referred to Ways and Means
2007: S.3033 - Referred to Cities/ A.3380 Referred to Ways and Means

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2017-S2615 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2615
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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  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.
   §  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD02398-01-7

 S. 2615                             2
 
 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:
   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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Andrew J. Lanza