NY State Senate Bill 2019-S410

Senate Bill S410

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides that the N.Y. city health and hospital corporation spend a minimum of 10% of its budget on acute care and emergency room facilities in each borough

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2019-S410 (ACTIVE) - Details

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:: 2013-2014: S2474
2015-2016: S3326
2017-2018: S3314

2019-S410 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the New York city health and hospital corporation spend a minimum of 10% of its budget on acute care and emergency room facilities in each borough and requires a representative from each borough on its board of directors.

2019-S410 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S410

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 that the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation spend
a minimum of ten percent of its budget on acute care and emergency room
facilities in each of the five boroughs.

 
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 spend a mini-
mum of ten percent of the capital budget and ten percent of the operat-
ing budget in each borough within the city of New York.

 
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 500,000 people, which represents
six-percent of the New York City's population, 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.

This bill would require the City to spend a minimum of ten percent of
the capital budget and ten percent of the operating budget 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 and care for the medical needs of its residents.
The legislation also mandates that at least one of the members of the
Health and Hospital Corporation reside in each Borough. While that is
the current makeup of the Boards there is nothing currently in place to
mandate such a common sense requirement.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2018: S.3314 - Third Reading Calendar
2017: S.3314 - Passed Senate
2016: S.3326 - Passed Senate / A.5222 - Referred to Corporations
2015: S.3326 - Passed Senate / A.5222 - Referred to Corporations
2014: S.2474 - Passed Senate / A.130 - Referred to Corporations
2013: S.2474 - Passed Senate / A.130 - Referred to Corporations
2012: A.63-Died in Corporations / S.2471 - Passed Senate
2010: A.7405 - Died in Corporations / S.3298 - Died in Corporations
2008: A.6717 - Referred to Corporations / S.3443-Passed Senate
2007: A.6717 - Reported to Ways & Means / S.3443-Passed Senate

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S410 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    410
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 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 SPEND A MINIMUM OF TEN PERCENT OF THE CAPITAL
 BUDGET AND TEN 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 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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00290-02-9

 S. 410                              2
 
 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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