NY State Senate Bill 2013-S7601B

Senate Bill S7601B

Signed By Governor

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Includes representation on the New York state palliative care and education and training council of social workers and home care

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- 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
Aug 11, 2014	signed chap.318
Aug 01, 2014	delivered to governor
Jun 16, 2014	returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.235 substituted for a9966
Jun 11, 2014	referred to health delivered to assembly passed senate
Jun 10, 2014	ordered to third reading cal.1277 committee discharged and committed to rules
Jun 04, 2014	print number 7601b
Jun 04, 2014	amend and recommit to health
May 22, 2014	print number 7601a
May 22, 2014	amend and recommit to health
May 15, 2014	referred to health

Votes

- Jun 11, 2014 - Floor Vote
  S7601B
  
  58
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  3
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 11, 2014
      
      aye (58)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Avella
      
      Ball
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Farley
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gipson
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Grisanti
      
      Hannon
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Latimer
      
      Libous
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Martins
      
      Maziarz
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      O'Brien
      
      O'Mara
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sampson
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tkaczyk
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      Zeldin
      
      excused (3)
      
      Espaillat
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Smith
  Jun 10, 2014 - Rules Committee Vote
  S7601B
  
  24
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 10, 2014
      
      aye (24)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      Dilan
      
      Espaillat
      
      Farley
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Hannon
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Larkin
      
      Libous
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Maziarz
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      Parker
      
      Perkins
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      excused (1)
      
      Hassell-Thompson

Bill Amendments

Original

B (Active)

2013-S7601 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9966
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2807-n, Pub Health L

2013-S7601 - Summary

Includes representation on the New York state palliative care education and training council of social workers and home care; directs such council to examine and make recommendations relating to palliative care education and training at schools of nursing and social work.

2013-S7601 - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S7601

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the public health law, in relation to
the palliative care education and training council; and to direct such
council to examine and make recommendations relating to such training
and education in nursing and social work schools

PURPOSE:  To amend the state's Palliative Care Education and Training
Council to promote practitioner education, training, skills and
participation in palliative care programs, and ultimately the
provision of and access to needed palliative care for patients.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one amends the state Palliative Care Education and Training
Council to add to the council membership individuals representative of
home care, social work and health coverage plans.

Section two directs the Council, within its mission, to examine and
make recommendations to the commissioners of health and education, the
chancellor of the state university of New York, and the Chairs of the
Senate and Assembly Committees on Health, Education and Higher
Education, with regard to the need, approaches and resources to
provide for palliative care education and training in state certified
schools of nursing and social work, as well as in practice settings at
the health care facility or agency level.

In carrying out this charge, the legislation asks the Council to
solicit and consider the input of nursing and social work schools.

The Council is charged to report within six months of the date of
bill's enactment.

Section 3 establishes an immediate effective date for the bill.

JUSTIFICATION:  Palliative care is vital to the care, quality of life
and health care experience for many patients and families. Palliative
care, while increasingly recognized for its critical role in patient
care, and its potential value to the overall functioning and
cost-effectiveness of the health care system, remains very
under-utilized and inaccessible.

Palliative care access and integration into the continuum of care is
one of the focal points of the state's current health care reform and
development efforts. Among the recommendations emanating from the
field is the need to encourage, support and advance education,
training and participation in palliative care by health care
practitioners. The Palliative Care Education and Training Program,
established by Chapter of 2007, focuses on palliative care education
for medical students and medical residents, as well as support for
education programs in medical schools and residency programs. Along
with physicians, nurses and social workers similarly play a vital role
in the provision and ultimately the accessibility and quality of
palliative care. However, there are no comparable efforts or policies
under way to similarly encourage and/or support education, training
and exposure to the palliative care field for nursing and social work
practitioners.


This legislation seeks to address further clinical education and
participation in palliative care by charging the state Palliative Care
Education and Training Council to examine and make recommendations
with regard to the need, approaches and resources to provide for
palliative care education and training in state certified schools of
nursing and social work, as well as in practice settings at the health
care facility or agency level.

In further support of palliative care development and access, the
legislation also adds to the Council representation and expertise
provided by home care, social workers (nurses and physicians are
already on the Council) and health coverage plans.

This legislation, and the Council's examination and recommendations to
follow, addresses a core issue in palliative care development and
access, and will lead to patient care, quality of life, health system
and cost-efficiency benefits.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New Bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  This bill shall take effect immediately.

2013-S7601 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7601

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 15, 2014
                               ___________

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  the  palliative
  care  education  and  training  council; and to direct such council to
  examine and make recommendations relating to such training and  educa-
  tion in nursing and social work schools

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of  section  2807-n  of  the
public  health  law, as added by section 63-f of part C of chapter 58 of
the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  (a) The New York state palliative care education and training  council
is  established in the department as an expert panel in palliative medi-
cine, education and training. Its members  shall  be  appointed  by  the
commissioner.  The  commissioner shall seek recommendations for appoint-
ments to such council from New  York  state-based  health  care  profes-
sional, consumer, medical institutional and medical educational leaders.
Members  of  the  council shall include: nine representatives of medical
schools and hospital organizations; two representatives of medical acad-
emies; two patient advocates; individual representatives of an organiza-
tion broadly representative of  physicians,  internal  medicine,  family
physicians,  nursing,  SOCIAL  WORK, hospice, HOME CARE, HEALTH COVERAGE
PLANS,   neurology,   psychiatry,   pediatrics,   obstetrics-gynecology,
surgery,  and  the  hospital  philanthropic community; and the executive
director or a member of the governor's taskforce on life and the law and
of the New York state council on  graduate  medical  education.  Members
shall  have  expertise  in  palliative  care or pain management. Members
shall serve a term of three years with renewable  terms.  Members  shall
receive  no compensation for their services, but shall be allowed actual
and necessary expenses in the performance of their duties.
  S 2. The palliative care education and  training  council  established
pursuant  to  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 6 of section 2807-n of the
public health law shall examine and make recommendations to the  commis-
sioners  of health and education, the chancellor of the state university

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                           LBD15272-01-4

S. 7601                             2

of New York, and the chairs of the senate  and  assembly  committees  on
health,  education  and  higher  education  with  regard  to  the  need,
approaches and resources to provide for palliative  care  education  and
training  in state certified schools of nursing and social work, as well
as in practice settings at the health care provider facility  or  agency
level. In conducting the examination and making the recommendations, the
council  shall also solicit and consider the input of representatives of
such schools of nursing and social work. The council  shall  report  its
examination and recommendations within 6 months of the effective date of
this act.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

2013-S7601A - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9966
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2807-n, Pub Health L

2013-S7601A - Summary

2013-S7601A - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S7601A

TITLE  OF BILL:  An act to amend the public health law, in relation to
the palliative care education and training council; and to direct such
council to examine and make recommendations relating to such  training
and education in nursing and social work schools

PURPOSE:   To amend the state's Palliative Care Education and Training
Council  to  promote  practitioner  education,  training,  skills  and
participation   in   palliative  care  programs,  and  ultimately  the
provision of and access to needed palliative care for patients.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one amends the state Palliative Care  Education  and  Training
Council to add to the council membership individuals representative of
home care, and social work.

Section  two  directs  the Council, within its mission, to examine and
make recommendations to the commissioners of health and education, the
chancellor of the State University of New York, and the Chairs of  the
Senate  and  Assembly  Committees  on  Health,  Education  and  Higher
Education, with regard  to  the  need,  approaches  and  resources  to
provide  for palliative care education and training in state certified
schools of nursing and social work, as well as in practice settings at
the health care facility or agency level.

In carrying out this charge,  the  legislation  asks  the  Council  to
solicit and consider the input of nursing and social work schools.

The  Council  is  charged  to  report within six months of the date of
bill's enactment.

Section 3 establishes an immediate effective date for the bill.

JUSTIFICATION:  Palliative care is vital to the care, quality of  life
and  health care experience for many patients and families. Palliative
care, while increasingly recognized for its critical role  in  patient
care,   and  its  potential  value  to  the  overall  functioning  and
cost-effectiveness  of  the   health   care   system,   remains   very
under-utilized and inaccessible.

Palliative  care  access and integration into the continuum of care is
one of the focal points of the state's current health care reform  and
development  efforts.  Among  the  recommendations  emanating from the
field is  the  need  to  encourage,  support  and  advance  education,
training   and   participation  in  palliative  care  by  health  care
practitioners. The Palliative Care  Education  and  Training  Program,
established  by  Chapter of 2007, focuses on palliative care education
for medical students and medical residents, as  well  as  support  for
education  programs  in  medical schools and residency programs. Along
with physicians, nurses and social workers similarly play a vital role
in the provision and  ultimately  the  accessibility  and  quality  of
palliative  care. However, there are no comparable efforts or policies
under way to similarly encourage and/or  support  education,  training
and  exposure to the palliative care field for nursing and social work
practitioners.


This legislation seeks  to  address  further  clinical  education  and
participation in palliative care by charging the state Palliative Care
Education  and  Training  Council  to examine and make recommendations
with regard to the need,  approaches  and  resources  to  provide  for
palliative  care  education and training in state certified schools of
nursing and social work, as well as in practice settings at the health
care facility or agency level.

In further support of palliative  care  development  and  access,  the
legislation  also  adds  to  the  Council representation and expertise
provided by home care, and social workers (nurses and  physicians  are
already on the Council).

This legislation, and the Council's examination and recommendations to
follow,  addresses  a  core  issue  in palliative care development and
access, and will lead to patient care, quality of life, health  system
and cost-efficiency benefits.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New Bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  This bill shall take effect immediately.

2013-S7601A - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 7601--A

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 15, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to the palliative
  care education and training council; and to  direct  such  council  to
  examine  and make recommendations relating to such training and educa-
  tion in nursing and social work schools

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 6 of section 2807-n of the
public health law, as added by section 63-f of part C of chapter  58  of
the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  (a)  The New York state palliative care education and training council
is established in the department as an expert panel in palliative  medi-
cine,  education  and  training.  Its  members shall be appointed by the
commissioner. The commissioner shall seek recommendations  for  appoint-
ments  to  such  council  from  New York state-based health care profes-
sional, consumer, medical institutional and medical educational leaders.
Members of the council shall include: nine  representatives  of  medical
schools and hospital organizations; two representatives of medical acad-
emies; two patient advocates; individual representatives of an organiza-
tion  broadly  representative  of  physicians, internal medicine, family
physicians, nursing, SOCIAL WORK, hospice, HOME CARE, neurology, psychi-
atry,  pediatrics,  obstetrics-gynecology,  surgery,  and  the  hospital
philanthropic  community;  and the executive director or a member of the
governor's taskforce on life and the law and of the New York state coun-
cil on graduate medical  education.  Members  shall  have  expertise  in
palliative  care or pain management. Members shall serve a term of three
years with renewable terms. Members shall receive  no  compensation  for
their  services,  but  shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses in
the performance of their duties.
  S 2. The palliative care education and  training  council  established
pursuant  to  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 6 of section 2807-n of the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                           LBD15272-03-4

S. 7601--A                          2

public health law shall examine and make recommendations to the  commis-
sioners  of health and education, the chancellor of the state university
of New York, and the chairs of the senate  and  assembly  committees  on
health,  education  and  higher  education  with  regard  to  the  need,
approaches and resources to provide for palliative  care  education  and
training  in state certified schools of nursing and social work, as well
as in practice settings at the health care provider facility  or  agency
level. In conducting the examination and making the recommendations, the
council  shall also solicit and consider the input of representatives of
such schools of nursing and social work. The council  shall  report  its
examination and recommendations within 6 months of the effective date of
this act.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

2013-S7601B (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9966
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2807-n, Pub Health L

2013-S7601B (ACTIVE) - Summary

2013-S7601B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S7601B

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the public health law, in relation to
the palliative care education and training council; and to direct such
council to examine and make recommendations relating to such training
and education in nursing and social work schools

PURPOSE:  To amend the state's Palliative Care Education and Training
Council to promote practitioner education, training, skills and
participation in palliative care programs, and ultimately the
provision of and access to needed palliative care for patients.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one amends the state Palliative Care Education and Training
Council to add to the council membership individuals representative of
home care, and social work.

Section two directs the Council, within its mission, to examine and
make recommendations to the commissioners of health and education, the
chancellor of the State University of New York, and the Chairs of the
Senate and Assembly Committees on Health, Education and Higher
Education, with regard to the need, approaches and resources to
provide for palliative care education and training in state certified
schools of nursing and social work, as well as in practice settings at
the health care facility or agency level.

In carrying out this charge, the legislation asks the Council to
solicit and consider the input of nursing and social work schools.

Section three establishes an immediate effective date for the bill.

JUSTIFICATION:  Palliative care is vital to the care, quality of life
and health care experience for many patients and families. Palliative
care, while increasingly recognized for its critical role in patient
care, and its potential value to the overall functioning and
cost-effectiveness of the health care system, remains very
under-utilized and inaccessible.

Palliative care access and integration into the continuum of care is
one of the focal points of the state's current health care reform and
development efforts. Among the recommendations emanating from the
field is the need to encourage, support and advance education,
training and participation in palliative care by health care
practitioners. The Palliative Care Education and Training Program,
established by Chapter 58 of 2007, focuses on palliative care
education for medical students and medical residents, as well as
support for education programs in medical schools and residency
programs. Along with physicians, nurses and social workers similarly
play a vital role in the provision and ultimately the accessibility
and quality of palliative care. However, there are no comparable
efforts or policies under way to similarly encourage and/or support
education, training and exposure to the palliative care field for
nursing and social work practitioners.

This legislation seeks to address further clinical education and
participation in palliative care by charging the state Palliative Care


Education and Training Council to examine and make recommendations
with regard to the need, approaches and resources to provide for
palliative care education and training in state certified schools of
nursing and social work, as well as in practice settings at the health
care facility or agency level.

In further support of palliative care development and access, the
legislation also adds to the Council representation and expertise
provided by home care, and social workers (nurses and physicians are
already on the Council).

This legislation, and the Council's examination and recommendations to
follow, addresses a core issue in palliative care development and
access, and will lead to patient care, quality of life, health system
and cost-efficiency benefits.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  This bill shall take effect immediately.

2013-S7601B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 7601--B

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 15, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  the  palliative
  care  education  and  training  council; and to direct such council to
  examine and make recommendations relating to such training and  educa-
  tion in nursing and social work schools

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of  section  2807-n  of  the
public  health  law, as added by section 63-f of part C of chapter 58 of
the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  (a) The New York state palliative care education and training  council
is  established in the department as an expert panel in palliative medi-
cine, education and training. Its members  shall  be  appointed  by  the
commissioner.  The  commissioner shall seek recommendations for appoint-
ments to such council from New  York  state-based  health  care  profes-
sional, consumer, medical institutional and medical educational leaders.
Members  of  the  council shall include: nine representatives of medical
schools and hospital organizations; two representatives of medical acad-
emies; two patient advocates; individual representatives of an organiza-
tion broadly representative of  physicians,  internal  medicine,  family
physicians, nursing, SOCIAL WORK, hospice, HOME CARE, neurology, psychi-
atry,  pediatrics,  obstetrics-gynecology,  surgery,  and  the  hospital
philanthropic community; and the executive director or a member  of  the
governor's taskforce on life and the law and of the New York state coun-
cil  on  graduate  medical  education.  Members  shall have expertise in
palliative care or pain management. Members shall serve a term of  three
years  with  renewable  terms. Members shall receive no compensation for
their services, but shall be allowed actual and  necessary  expenses  in
the performance of their duties.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15272-04-4

S. 7601--B                          2

  S  2.  The  palliative care education and training council established
pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision 6  of  section  2807-n  of  the
public  health law shall examine and make recommendations to the commis-
sioners of health and education, the chancellor of the state  university
of  New  York,  and  the chairs of the senate and assembly committees on
health,  education  and  higher  education  with  regard  to  the  need,
approaches  and  resources  to provide for palliative care education and
training in state certified schools of nursing and social work, as  well
as  in  practice settings at the health care provider facility or agency
level. In conducting the examination and making the recommendations, the
council shall also solicit and consider the input of representatives  of
such schools of nursing and social work.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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