S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  9966

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 4, 2014
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried)
  -- read once and referred 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, 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
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.
              

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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.