Bill Text: NY S05927 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Increases from 2 years to 5 years, the period of validity for the commissioner of health's identification of comprehensive care centers for eating disorders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-21 - SIGNED CHAP.259 [S05927 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05927-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5927
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 5, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  increasing  the
          period  of  validity to 5 years for the commissioner of health's iden-
          tification of comprehensive care centers for eating disorders
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 2799-h of the public health law,
     2  as amended by  section 13 of part A of chapter 109 of the laws of  2010,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  The  commissioner's  identification of a comprehensive care center
     5  for eating disorders under this article shall be valid for not more than
     6  a two year period from the date of issuance. The commissioner may  reis-
     7  sue  such  identifications  for  subsequent  periods of up to [two] five
     8  years, provided that the comprehensive  care  center  has  notified  the
     9  commissioner  of any material changes in structure or operation based on
    10  its original application, or  since  its  last  written  notice  by  the
    11  commissioner,  and  that  the  commissioner is satisfied that the center
    12  continues to meet the criteria required pursuant to this article.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11480-01-7
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