S 2278: Requires hospitals to have a registered professional nurse as a sitting and voting member of the governing entity responsible for developing a hospital's strategic plan, structure, systems, policies and programs.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2278 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi- tals to have a registered professional nurse as a sitting and voting member of the governing entity responsible for developing the hospi- tal's strategic plan, structure, systems, policies and programs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2801-a of the public health law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 18 to read as follows: 3 18. All hospitals shall have a registered professional nurse, holding 4 a current unencumbered license from New York state, as a sitting and 5 voting member of the governing entity responsible for developing the 6 hospital's strategic plan, structure, systems, policies and programs. 7 Such board position may be in addition to the maximum number of seats 8 allowed for the governing entity responsible for developing the hospi- 9 tal's strategic plan, structure, systems, policies and programs. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 11 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 12 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 13 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 14 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03830-01-5