2017 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 2 - The Department of Health
Title 2 - The Public Health Council
220 - Public Health and Health Planning Council; Appointment of Members.

  220.  Public  health  and  health  planning council; appointment of
  members. There shall continue to be in the department  a  public  health
  and  health planning council to consist of the commissioner and fourteen
  members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and  consent  of
  the  senate;  provided  that effective December first, two thousand ten,
  the membership of the council shall  consist  of  the  commissioner  and
  twenty-four  members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and
  consent of the senate. Membership on the council shall be reflective  of
  the  diversity  of the state's population including, but not limited to,
  the various geographic areas and  population  densities  throughout  the
  state.  The  members  shall include representatives of the public health
  system, health care providers that  comprise  the  state's  health  care
  delivery   system,  individuals  with  expertise  in  the  clinical  and
  administrative aspects of health care delivery, issues affecting  health
  care   consumers,   health   planning,   health   care   financing   and
  reimbursement, health care regulation and compliance, and public  health
  practice  and  at  least  two  members  shall  also  be  members  of the
  behavioral health services advisory council; at least four members shall
  be representatives of general hospitals or nursing homes; and  at  least
  one  member  shall  be a representative of each of the following groups:
  home care  agencies,  diagnostic  and  treatment  centers,  health  care
  payors,  labor  organizations for health care employees, and health care
  consumer advocacy organizations.