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 1.47 - Executive order no. 47: amending and superseding the executive orders of may 23, 1967 [no. 23], april 16, 1968 [no. 25], october 8, 1969 [no. 34] and october 8, 1970 [no. 40], 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
I, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor of the State of New
					 York, by virture of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws
					 of the State of New York, do hereby direct by Executive Order that Executive
					 Order Number 23 dated May 23, 1967, as amended by the Executive Orders of April
					 16, 1968, October 8, 1969 and October 8, 1970, which established the Health
					 Planning Commission, be amended to read as follows:
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
					 State of New York, do hereby establish within the Executive Department 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 Services, Agriculture and Markets,
					 the Superintendent of Insurance, the Chancellor of the State University and the
					 Chairman of the Narcotic Addiction Control Commission.
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 Amendments of 1966 and any act or acts amendatory or
					 supplemental thereto, 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 Services.
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.
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 and any act or acts amendatory or
					 supplemental thereto. The members of the Advisory Council shall be appointed by
					 the Governor.
III. Office
				  of Planning Services
The Office of Planning Services shall provide all personal
					 and other services as may be necessary or desirable to assist the Health
					 Planning Commission to fulfill the purposes of this Order and of the Federal
					 Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health Services Amendments of 1966 and
					 any act or acts amendatory or supplemental thereto.
The Office of Planning Services, acting for and on behalf
					 of the Health Planning Commission, is hereby authorized to receive and disburse
					 funds from the Federal Government granted for comprehensive planning purposes
					 under the provisions of the Federal Comprehensive Health Planning and Public
					 Health Services Amendments of 1966 and any act or acts amendatory or
					 supplemental thereto.
The Office of Planning Services, acting for and on behalf
					 of the Health Planning Commission, shall enter into such contracts and
					 agreements as shall be necessary or convenient to fulfill the purposes of this
					 Order.
IV. Effective Date
				  and Transfer Provisions
Executive Order Number 23 dated May 23, 1967, and Executive
					 Orders Number 25, dated April 16, 1968, Number 34, dated October 8, 1969, and
					 Number 40, dated October 8, 1970, which amended such Executive Order, are
					 hereby amended and superseded by this Executive Order effective April 1, 1971.
					 On such date, all rights and obligations of the Health Planning Commission
					 under any contract or agreement relating to functions, powers and duties
					 transferred by this Order to the Office of Planning Services are hereby
					 transferred and assigned to, devolved upon and assumed by the Office of
					 Planning Services. With respect to the functions, powers, duties, rights and
					 obligations so transferred and assumed, the Office of Planning Services shall
					 be deemed and held to constitute the continuation of the Health Planning
					 Commission and not a different agency or authority. Any proceeding or other
					 business or matter heretofore undertaken or commenced by or before such
					 Commission may be conducted and completed by the Office of Planning Services in
					 the same manner and under the same terms and conditions and with the same
					 effect as if conducted and completed by such Commission.
Provision may be made, within appropriations available
					 therefor and subject to the Civil Service Law, for the transfer to the Office
					 of Planning Services of such officers and employees of the Health Planning
					 Commission other than Commission members as the Director of the Office of
					 Planning Services may deem necessary.
All Federal funds advanced to the Health Planning
					 Commission under the Federal Comprehensive Health Planning and Public Health
					 Services Amendments of 1966, to the extent of remaining unexpended or
					 unencumbered balances thereof, shall be transferred to and made available for
					 use by the Office of Planning Services for the same purposes for which
					 originally advanced.
Signed: Nelson A. RockefellerDated: April 2, 1971
[FN*] Superseded by Executive Order No. 6.2,
					 infra,following §
											3.6.