NY State Senate Bill 2017-S3516

Senate Bill S3516

Signed By Governor

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to counting representation in the New York state dental association

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A5984 - Signed by Governor

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Sep 12, 2017	signed chap.288
Aug 31, 2017	delivered to governor
Jun 07, 2017	returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.1003 substituted for s3516
Jun 07, 2017	substituted by a5984
May 22, 2017	advanced to third reading
May 17, 2017	2nd report cal.
May 16, 2017	1st report cal.1003
Jan 24, 2017	referred to higher education

Votes

- Jun 7, 2017 - Floor Vote
  A5984
  
  62
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 7, 2017
      
      aye (62)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Alcantara
      
      Amedore
      
      Avella
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      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
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Latimer
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Persaud
      
      Phillips
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      excused (1)
      
      LaValle
  May 16, 2017 - Higher Education Committee Vote
  S3516
  
  18
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Higher Education Committee Vote: May 16, 2017
      
      aye (18)
      
      Alcantara
      
      Bailey
      
      Breslin
      
      Croci
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Helming
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Serino
      
      Seward
      
      Stavisky
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Griffo

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2017-S3516 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5984
Law Section:: Education
Laws Affected:: Amd §6, Chap 987 of 1971

2017-S3516 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that any member of a district or county dental society who has been a member since 1977 may maintain his or her membership in that district or county dental society regardless of where such member resides or practices dentistry.

2017-S3516 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S3516

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend chapter 987 of the laws of 1971
amending the education law and the civil practice law and rules
relating to the regulation and practice of certain professions; and to
continue the dental society of the state of New York, in relation to
counting representation in the New York state dental association

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

To eliminate the requirement that members in one local component
dental society be counted for representation purposes in the local
component dental society where they practice.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Section 1 deletes the requirement that members in one local component
dental society be counted for representation purposes in the local
component dental society where they practice.

Section 2 makes the bill effective immediately upon enactment.

 JUSTIFICATION :

The New York State Dental Association is entering into a new
integrated computerized membership system called Aptify that is

managed by the American Dental Association. The Aptify system is
incapable of tracking and categorizing members of local component
dental societies for two different purposes. Aptify can only
accommodate membership in the local component dental society where the
dentist is actually a member. It cannot track or reflect
representation for voting purposes in a different local component
dental society.

All local component dental societies of the New York State Dental
Association will be transitioning to the Aptify system along with the
American Dental Association and the New York State Dental Association.
In order to make this transition possible, the statute governing the
New York State Dental Association and its local component dental
societies must be amended to eliminate the requirement that voting
representation be tracked differently from actual membership in a
local component dental society. This change affects less than one
hundred dentists and results in no change to any local component
dental society representation or voting rights in either the New York
State Dental Association or the American Dental Association.
Therefore, the change is merely a housekeeping item that is necessary
to allow implementation of the unified Aptify membership system.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

None.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None to the state.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately upon enactment into law.

2017-S3516 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3516
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 987 of the laws of 1971 amending  the  education
   law  and  the  civil practice law and rules relating to the regulation
   and practice of certain professions; and to continue the dental socie-
   ty of the state of New York, in relation to counting representation in
   the New York state dental association
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  1  and 2 of section 6 of chapter 987 of the
 laws of 1971 amending the education law and the civil practice  law  and
 rules  relating  to  the regulation and practice of certain professions;
 and to continue the dental society of the state of New York, as  amended
 by chapter 683 of the laws of 1997, are amended to read as follows:
   1.  The existing district dental societies are continued. In any judi-
 cial district in which a district dental society  is  not  incorporated,
 fifteen or more dentists of such district authorized to practice dentis-
 try in this state may become a district dental society of such district,
 by publishing a call for a meeting of the dentists of the district to be
 held  at  a  time and place mentioned therein within the district, in at
 least one newspaper in each county of the district, at least once a week
 for at least four weeks immediately preceding the time when such meeting
 is to be held, and by meeting at the time and place  specified  in  such
 notice  with  such  dentists  authorized  to  practice  dentistry in the
 district as may respond to such call, and by making and filing with  the
 secretary  of the state dental association a certificate, to be executed
 and acknowledged by the dentists so meeting, or by at least  fifteen  of
 them,  which shall set forth that such meeting has been held pursuant to
 such notice, the corporate name of  the  society,  which  shall  be  the
 district  dental  society  of  the  judicial district where located, the
 names and places of residence of the officers of  the  society  for  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD08063-01-7

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 first year, or until the first annual meeting, which officers shall be a
 president,  vice-president,  secretary and treasurer, the time and place
 of the annual meeting  of  the  society  and  the  general  objects  and
 purposes  of  the  association.  Thereupon  the  persons  executing such
 certificate and all other dentists in good standing  and  authorized  to
 practice  dentistry in such district, who shall subscribe to its bylaws,
 shall be a corporation by the name expressed in such certificate.  Every
 licensed and registered dentist in the judicial district in which such a
 society is formed, shall be eligible to membership in the district soci-
 ety  of  the district in which he or she resides or practices dentistry,
 except if such dentist resides or practices dentistry  in  a  county  in
 which  a  county  dental  society  is  formed  in the manner hereinafter
 provided, he or she shall be eligible to membership in such county soci-
 ety; provided, however, that after September 1, 1990  any  licensed  and
 registered  dentist  who is not a member of the state dental association
 shall be eligible for membership only in the district or county  society
 in which he or she maintains his or her primary practice.  Any member of
 a  district  or  county  dental  society  who  has been a member of such
 district or county dental  society  continuously  since  January  first,
 nineteen  hundred  seventy-seven,  may maintain his or her membership in
 that district or county dental society notwithstanding where such member
 resides or practices dentistry[, provided that for purposes of  counting
 the  number  of  members  in  any district or county dental society with
 respect to any New York state  dental  association  or  american  dental
 association matter relating to representation, all such members affected
 by  this  provision  shall be counted only as members of the district or
 county dental society where they maintain their primary practice and not
 as members of any other district or county dental society].  The  dental
 societies  of  the respective districts of the state shall have power to
 make all necessary bylaws not inconsistent with the laws of  this  state
 for  the  management of their affairs and property and the admission and
 expulsion of members; providing that no bylaw of  any  district  society
 shall be repugnant to or inconsistent with the bylaws of the state asso-
 ciation.  Twenty members or ten percent of the total membership entitled
 to  vote,  whichever  is  less,  shall be a quorum.   Such societies may
 purchase and hold real and personal property for the purposes  of  their
 incorporation.
   2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or any other law or
 rule to the contrary, a county dental society may be formed if  applica-
 tion  by  fifteen  or  more  dentists  of  a county   or fifteen or more
 dentists from each of contiguous counties, or fifty percent or  more  of
 the  dentists in a county or from each contiguous county with fewer than
 thirty dentists is approved by the governing body of the New York  State
 Dental  Association.   Every licensed and registered dentist who resides
 or practices dentistry within the geographic area in which such a county
 society is formed shall be  eligible  to  membership  in  such  society;
 provided, however, that after September 1, 1990, any licensed and regis-
 tered  dentist who is not a member of the state dental association shall
 be eligible for membership only in the county society in which he or she
 maintains his or her primary practice. Any member of a district or coun-
 ty dental society who has been a  member  of  such  district  or  county
 dental society continuously since January first, nineteen hundred seven-
 ty-seven,  may maintain his or her membership in that district or county
 dental society notwithstanding where such member  resides  or  practices
 dentistry[, provided that for purposes of counting the number of members
 in  any  district  or county dental society with respect to any New York

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 state dental association or american dental association matter  relating
 to  representation, all such members affected by this provision shall be
 counted only as members of the district or county dental  society  where
 they  maintain  their  primary  practice and not as members of any other
 district or county dental society]. Such county dental  societies  shall
 have  the same powers, duties and quorum requirements as district dental
 societies.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Thomas D. Croci