Enacts the uniform guardianship and protective proceedings jurisdiction act. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Relates to prohibiting certain restaurants and food establishments from serving foods containing artificial trans fat. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Waives interest and penalties due on surcharges and assessments due prior to January 1, 2012, relating to payments to health care providers. /
Sponsor: HANNON

Provides for the licensing and regulates the practice of anesthesiologist assistants. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Enacts the "food retail establishment subsidization for healthy communities act" (FRESH Communities); provides loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to businesses, municipalities, not-for-profit corporations or local development corporations for the purpose of attracting, maintaining or permitting the expansion of food retail establishments in underserved areas. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Directs the department of health to establish and maintain an internet website to advance women's health initiatives. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Authorizes adult day care programs to provide certain services at the site of a voluntary residential health care facility rightsizing demonstration program. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a demonstration program authorizing private capital investments and private equity interests in hospitals. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Relates to permitting financing by the Nassau county interim finance authority for the benefit of the Nassau county health care corporation. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: RULES

Directs the commissioner of health to develop a standard prior prescription drug authorization form for managed care providers. /
Sponsor: HANNON

Regulates the provision of observation services by general hospitals. /
Sponsor: HANNON

Requires the port authority of New York and New Jersey to conduct a noise and land use compatibility study. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: RULES

Expands entities eligible to apply for a certificate of authority to operate a long term care plan as a health maintenance organization; requires all applicants to comply with regulations relating to managed care. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Makes technical corrections to provisions relating to the review of eligible federally qualified health center capital projects. /
Sponsor: HANNON

Eliminates the requirement that prescription drugs covered by a managed care provider be in the atypical antipsychotic therapeutic class. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Relates to coverage and payment for prescription drugs in Medicaid managed care programs. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Directs the department of health to post, on its internet website, the state's medical assistance plan and all amendments thereto; provides that no provision of such plan shall take effect until it is posted on the internet website. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Requires signatures of chief executives of the villages of Hempstead and Freeport for payments in lieu of taxes prior to the grant of application or the effectiveness of any such grant for a payment for projects approved by the Nassau county industrial development agency and the town of Hempstead industrial development agency. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: RULES

Excludes a statement of apology or regret, made by a health care provider, as an admission of liability in a malpractice lawsuit. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: JUDICIARY

Directs the department of environmental conservation to expedite cleanup efforts at the former Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation facility in Bethpage, NY. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION