Bill Text: NY S00415 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the membership on the Nassau health care corporation board; provides that the board of directors shall select the chair and the chief executive officer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S00415 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00415-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           415

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens. THOMAS, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,
          Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to membership on
          the Nassau health care corporation board

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  1  of  section  3402  of  the
     2  public  authorities  law,  as added by chapter 9 of the laws of 1997, is
     3  amended and a new paragraph (b-1) is added to read as follows:
     4    (b) The corporation  shall  be  governed  by  a  board  of  directors,
     5  consisting of fifteen voting directors, eight of whom shall be appointed
     6  by  the governor as provided in paragraph (c) of this subdivision, three
     7  of whom shall be appointed by the county executive for initial terms  of
     8  two years, and four of whom shall be appointed by the county legislature
     9  for initial terms of three years.
    10    (b-1)  Each voting director should possess a high degree of experience
    11  and knowledge in relevant fields and a high degree of  interest  in  the
    12  corporation.  The  appointment of any voting director to the corporation
    13  shall be based in part on the objective of ensuring that the corporation
    14  includes diverse and beneficial perspectives and experience,  including,
    15  but  not limited to, those of business management, law, finance, medical
    16  and/or other health professionals,  health  sector  workers,    and  the
    17  patient or consumer perspective.
    18    §  2.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 2 of section 3402 of the public
    19  authorities law, as added by chapter 9 of the laws of 1997,  is  amended
    20  to read as follows:
    21    (a)  The  [county executive] board of directors shall by majority vote
    22  designate one of the fifteen voting directors as the chairperson of  the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01903-01-3
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     1  board.  The chairperson shall preside over all meetings of the board and
     2  shall have such other duties as the voting directors may direct.
     3    §  3.  Subdivision 4 of section 3402 of the public authorities law, as
     4  added by chapter 9 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
     5    4. The board of directors shall select  the  chief  executive  officer
     6  [subject  to  the  approval of the county executive] and shall determine
     7  the salary and benefits of the chief executive  officer  of  the  corpo-
     8  ration.   The chief executive officer shall serve at the pleasure of the
     9  board of directors provided, however, that removal without  cause  shall
    10  not  prejudice the contract rights, if any, of the chief executive offi-
    11  cer.
    12    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that nothing  in
    13  this  act shall be construed to prohibit an individual from completing a
    14  term for which the person was appointed, prior to the effective date  of
    15  this act.