Section 2410. Health research science board

1. There is hereby established
  in the department the health research science board. The board shall  be
  comprised of seventeen voting members, three non-voting regional members
  and three non-voting ex-officio members as follows:
    (a)  twelve voting members shall be scientists each of whom shall have
  either an M.D., D.O., Ph.D., or Dr.P.H. in one of the following  fields:
  biochemistry, biology, biostatistics, chemistry, epidemiology, genetics,
  immunology,   medicine,   microbiology,  molecular  biology,  nutrition,
  oncology, reproductive endocrinology, or toxicology and  must  currently
  be  engaged  in  treating  patients or conducting health research.  Such
  members shall be  appointed  in  the  following  manner:  two  shall  be
  appointed  by  the  temporary  president  of  the  senate and one by the
  minority leader of the senate; two shall be appointed by the speaker  of
  the  assembly  and one by the minority leader of the assembly; six shall
  be appointed by the governor;
    (b) the governor shall appoint six regional  members,  three  of  whom
  shall  serve  as  full  voting  members and three of whom shall serve as
  alternative members without voting rights. Such regional  members  shall
  be  persons  who  have  or have had breast cancer, and shall be actively
  involved with a community-based, grass-roots breast cancer organization.
  Two of such appointments shall be made upon the  recommendation  of  the
  temporary  president  of  the  senate  and  two  shall  be made upon the
  recommendation of the speaker of the assembly. One regional member shall
  be appointed from each of the following geographic areas of  the  state:
  Long  Island,  New  York  City,  the  Hudson  Valley, Northern New York,
  Central New York and Western New York. The  order  of  appointments  and
  recommendations  for  appointments  and  voting  rights  shall rotate as
  follows:
    (i) The governor shall appoint regional members for three  year  terms
  in the following order:
    (A) Long Island, which member shall have voting rights,
    (B) Central New York, which member shall not have voting rights,
    (C) Hudson Valley, which member shall have voting rights,
    (D) Northern New York, which member shall not have voting rights,
    (E) Western New York, which member shall have voting rights, and
    (F) New York City, which member shall not have voting rights;
    (ii)  The governor, upon the recommendation of the temporary president
  of the senate, shall appoint regional members for three  year  terms  in
  the following order:
    (A) Hudson Valley, which member shall not have voting rights,
    (B) Northern New York, which member shall have voting rights,
    (C) Western New York, which member shall not have voting rights,
    (D) New York City, which member shall have voting rights,
    (E) Long Island, which member shall have voting rights, and
    (F) Central New York, which member shall not have voting rights; and
    (iii)  The  governor,  upon  the  recommendation of the speaker of the
  assembly, shall appoint regional members for three  year  terms  in  the
  following order:
    (A) Western New York, which member shall have voting rights,
    (B) New York City, which member shall not have voting rights,
    (C) Long Island, which member shall not have voting rights,
    (D) Central New York, which member shall have voting rights,
    (E) Hudson Valley, which member shall not have voting rights, and
    (F) Northern New York, which member shall have voting rights;
    (c)  the governor shall appoint three non-voting ex officio members to
  the board, one of  whom  shall  be  the  commissioner,  or  his  or  her
  designee,  one  of  whom  shall  be  the  commissioner  of environmental
  conservation, or his or her designee, and  one  of  whom  shall  be  the

  director  of  the  Cornell  University  Institute  for  Comparative  and
  Environmental Toxicology, or his or her designee; and
    (d) the governor shall appoint one voting member who shall be a person
  who has or has survived breast cancer and one voting member who shall be
  a person who has or has survived prostate or testicular cancer.
    The  governor  shall  designate  the chair of the board. The governor,
  temporary president of  the  senate,  minority  leader  of  the  senate,
  speaker of the assembly, and minority leader of the assembly may solicit
  recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the
  National Institutes of Health, the Federal Agency For Health Care Policy
  and  Research,  and the National Academy of Sciences for appointments or
  recommendations for appointments to the board.
    2. All members shall serve  for  terms  of  three  years  and  may  be
  reappointed,   such  terms  to  commence  July  first  and  expire  June
  thirtieth; provided, however,  that  of  the  scientific  members  first
  appointed,  three  such  members,  one  appointed  by  the governor, one
  appointed by the temporary president of the senate and one appointed  by
  the  speaker  of the assembly, shall be appointed for terms of one year,
  and three such members, one appointed by the governor, one appointed  by
  the  temporary president of the senate, and one appointed by the speaker
  of the assembly shall be appointed for a term of two years.
    The board shall convene on or before September first, nineteen hundred
  ninety-seven.
    3. Any member, after notice and an opportunity to  be  heard,  may  be
  removed  by  the  governor for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.
  Any member who fails to attend three consecutive meetings of the  board,
  unless  excused  by  formal  vote  of the board, shall be deemed to have
  vacated his or her position.
    4. Any vacancy in the board shall be filled for the unexpired term  in
  the same manner as the original appointment.
    5.  A  majority  of the voting members of the board shall constitute a
  quorum for the transaction of any business or the exercise of any  power
  or function of the board.
    6.  Members  of  the  board  shall  not receive compensation for their
  services as members, but shall be allowed  their  actual  and  necessary
  expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
    7.  For  the  purposes  of  this  section the following counties shall
  constitute the following geographic areas:
    (a) Long Island: the counties of Nassau and Suffolk.
    (b) New York City: the counties of Kings, Queens, Richmond,  New  York
  and Bronx.
    (c)  Hudson  Valley:  the  counties  of Westchester, Rockland, Putnam,
  Orange, Dutchess, Ulster, Greene, Columbia, Sullivan and Delaware.
    (d) Northern  New  York:  the  counties  of  Albany,  Clinton,  Essex,
  Franklin,  Fulton,  Herkimer,  Hamilton, Montgomery, Otsego, Rensselaer,
  Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren and Washington.
    (e) Central  New  York:  the  counties  of  Broome,  Cayuga,  Chemung,
  Chenango, Cortland, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego,
  Seneca, Schuyler, St. Lawrence, Tioga, Tompkins and Wayne.
    (f)   Western   New  York:  the  counties  of  Allegany,  Cattaraugus,
  Chautauqua,  Erie,  Genesee,  Niagara,  Orleans,  Wyoming,   Livingston,
  Monroe, Ontario, Steuben and Yates.