Section 957. Temporary statewide health advisory board

1. There is hereby
  created  in  the  executive  department  a  temporary  statewide  health
  advisory board, hereafter referred to in this section  as  the  "board",
  which  shall  consist of the commissioner of health, the commissioner of
  social services, the superintendent of insurance, and  the  director  of
  the  division  of  the  budget,  or their designees, plus two additional
  members appointed by  the  governor  and  six  additional  members  with
  expertise  in  the  delivery  of  medical  care, provision of health and
  health related services, health care  financing,  labor  issues,  health
  consumer  affairs,  and/or  employer  issues  who  shall be appointed as
  follows: two members by the  temporary  president  of  the  senate;  two
  members  by  the  speaker  of  the  assembly; one member by the minority
  leader of the senate and one  member  by  the  minority  leader  of  the
  assembly.  All  such appointments shall be made by April first, nineteen
  hundred ninety-four. The commissioner of health and  the  superintendent
  of insurance shall serve as co-chairmen of the board.
    2.  Vacancies  to  the board shall be filled in the same manner as the
  member whose vacancy is being filled was appointed.
    3. The members of the board shall receive no  compensation  for  their
  services  as  members,  but  shall be allowed their actual and necessary
  expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
    4. State agencies shall cooperate with the board in implementation  of
  its functions.
    5.  The  board  is  hereby  authorized and directed to: (a) review all
  applications for grants  authorized  pursuant  to  section  twenty-eight
  hundred fourteen of the public health law and advise the commissioner of
  health concerning their appropriateness;
    (b)  review  all  proposals submitted by applicants funded pursuant to
  section twenty-eight hundred  fourteen  of  the  public  health  law  to
  operate  a  health  network containing a reimbursement component, global
  budget, or a health care demonstration;
    (c)  make  recommendations  to  the   commissioner   of   health   for
  authorization of such proposals;
    (d)   make   recommendations  to  the  governor  and  the  legislature
  concerning the waiver, modification or suspension of the requirements of
  any provisions of law or regulation to effectuate any global budget,  or
  health  care  demonstration  approved pursuant to this chapter and other
  changes in the health care delivery system; and
    (e) make recommendations to the governor and  legislature  to  promote
  the  conversion or retraining of hospital employees to other health care
  occupations, as may be necessary, as a result of demonstrations proposed
  in this chapter.
    6. Any proposal to operate a  health  network,  global  budget,  or  a
  health  care  demonstration  not  recommended  for approval by the board
  pursuant to this chapter shall not  be  authorized  to  operate  by  the
  commissioner of health.
    * NB Expired June 30, 1996