N.Y. Executive Law § 957: Temporary statewide health advisory board

* § 957. Temporary statewide health advisory board. 1. There is hereby

created in the executive department a temporary statewide health

advisory board, hereafter referred to in this section as the "board",

which shall consist of the commissioner of health, the commissioner of

social services, the superintendent of insurance, and the director of

the division of the budget, or their designees, plus two additional

members appointed by the governor and six additional members with

expertise in the delivery of medical care, provision of health and

health related services, health care financing, labor issues, health

consumer affairs, and/or employer issues who shall be appointed as

follows: two members by the temporary president of the senate; two

members by the speaker of the assembly; one member by the minority

leader of the senate and one member by the minority leader of the

assembly. All such appointments shall be made by April first, nineteen

hundred ninety-four. The commissioner of health and the superintendent

of insurance shall serve as co-chairmen of the board.

2. Vacancies to the board shall be filled in the same manner as the

member whose vacancy is being filled was appointed.

3. The members of the board shall receive no compensation for their

services as members, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary

expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

4. State agencies shall cooperate with the board in implementation of

its functions.

5. The board is hereby authorized and directed to:

(a) review all applications for grants authorized pursuant to section

twenty-eight hundred fourteen of the public health law and advise the

commissioner of health concerning their appropriateness;

(b) review all proposals submitted by applicants funded pursuant to

section twenty-eight hundred fourteen of the public health law to

operate a health network containing a reimbursement component, global

budget, or a health care demonstration;

(c) make recommendations to the commissioner of health for

authorization of such proposals;

(d) make recommendations to the governor and the legislature

concerning the waiver, modification or suspension of the requirements of

any provisions of law or regulation to effectuate any global budget, or

health care demonstration approved pursuant to this chapter and other

changes in the health care delivery system; and

(e) make recommendations to the governor and legislature to promote

the conversion or retraining of hospital employees to other health care

occupations, as may be necessary, as a result of demonstrations proposed

in this chapter.

6. Any proposal to operate a health network, global budget, or a

health care demonstration not recommended for approval by the board

pursuant to this chapter shall not be authorized to operate by the

commissioner of health.

* NB Expired June 30, 1996