New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 1 - Executive Orders (Nelson A. Rockefeller) › Section 1.23 - Executive order no. 23: designating the health planning commission as the state's official long-range health planning agency

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution
					 and Laws of the State of New York I, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor of the
					 Sate of New York, do hereby establish an interdepartmental health planning
					 commission, to be known as the Health Planning Commission, to consist of the
					 Commissioner of Health as chairman, the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene as
					 vice-chairman, and the Commissioners of Education, Labor, Local Government,
					 Social Welfare, the Superintendent of Insurance, the Chancellor of the State
					 University and the Chairman of the Narcotic Addiction Control Commission. The
					 Director of the Office of Planning Coordination shall serve as a non-voting, ex
					 officio member.
I. General Powers.
The Commission is hereby designated as the single State
					 agency to supervise the administration of the State comprehensive health
					 planning functions implementing the Federal Comprehensive Health Planning and
					 Public Health Services Amedments of 1966. The Commission is hereby authorized
					 to receive and disburse funds from the Federal government granted for
					 comprehensive planning purposes under the provisions of such Act and any act or
					 acts amendatory or supplemental hereto, and to do all things necessary or
					 convenient to fulfill the purposes and requirements of such act or acts.
The Commission shall coordinate and review health planning
					 efforts among governmental and non-governmental agencies, organizations and
					 groups concerned with health services, facilities and manpower and shall
					 formulate and update on a continuous basis a comprehensive State health plan.
					 The Commission's health plan shall be coordinated with the State comprehensive
					 development plan and the comprehensive planning process being developed by the
					 Office of Planning Coordination.
The Commission shall establish the policies and procedures
					 for the expenditure of public funds for the purpose of comprehensive State
					 planning for both public and private health services; designate public or
					 private, non-profit agencies or organizations for the purpose of area-wide
					 health planning in the various parts of the State; approve project grants to
					 public or private, non-profit agencies or organizations for area-wide health
					 planning; and enter into such contracts and agreements as shall be necessary or
					 convenient to fulfill the purposes of this Order.
The Commission shall review all the plans of State agencies
					 relating to the provision of health and mental health services to assure that
					 such plans are in accordance with the comprehensive State health plan.
In exercising its powers, functions and duties, the
					 Commission shall be responsible to the Governor and shall consult and work
					 closely with the Health Planning Advisory Council.
II. Health Planning Advisory Council.
A Health Planning Advisory Council is hereby established to
					 consist of representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations
					 and groups concerned with health, and of consumers of health services, to
					 advise the Health Planning Commission in the exercise of its powers, functions
					 and duties under this Order and the Federal Comprehensive Health Planning and
					 Public Health Services Amendments of 1966. The members of the Advisory Council
					 shall be appointed by the Governor.
III. Personnel.
The Commission shall appoint an Executive Director and
					 shall assign to such Director such powers, functions and duties as it shall
					 deem appropriate. An Executive Secretary shall also be appointed by the
					 Commission to act as the chief staff officer of the Health Planning Advisory
					 Council. The Commission may employ such additional personnel as it may deem
					 necessary or desirable to fulfill the purposes of this Order and of the Federal
					 Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Services Amendments of
					 1966.
IV. Executive Order
				  Number 1, dated March 31, 1960, which established the Interdepartmental Health
				  and Hospital Council, is rescinded effective June 30, 1967. On such date all
				  the functions and powers possessed by and all the obligations and duties of the
				  Interdepartmenetal Health and Hospital Council shall be transferred and
				  assigned to, assumed by and devolved upon the Health Planning Commission
				  established by this Order. With respect to the functions, powers, obligations
				  and duties so transferred and assumed, the Health Planning Commission shall be
				  deemed and held to constitute the continuation of the said Interdepartmental
				  Health and Hospital Council and not a different agency or authority. Any
				  proceeding or other business or matter heretofore undertaken or commenced by or
				  before the Interdepartmental Health and Hospital Council may be conducted and
				  completed by the Health Planning Commission in the same manner and under the
				  same terms and conditions and with the same effect as if conducted and
				  completed by the Interdepartmental Health and Hospital Council.
Signed: Nelson A. RockefellerDated: May 23, 1967
[FN[DAGGER]] Superseded by Executive Order No. 6.2,
					 infra,following §
											3.6.