New York S 351: Adopts the solemn covenant of the states to award prizes for curing diseases interstate compact

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S00351 Summary:

BILL NOS00351 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01265

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SPONSORRIVERA

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COSPNSRSEPULVEDA

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 49-B §§4999 - 4999-o, Pub Health L

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Adopts the solemn covenant of the states to award prizes for curing diseases interstate compact.

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BILL NOS00351 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 351

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, SEPULVEDA -- 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 adopting the
 solemn covenant of the states to award prizes for curing diseases
 interstate compact

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new article
 2 49-B to read as follows:

 3 ARTICLE 49-B
 4 SOLEMN COVENANT OF THE STATES TO AWARD PRIZES FOR CURING DISEASES

 5 Section 4999. Definitions.
 6 4999-a. Establishment of the commission; membership.
 7 4999-b. Powers of the commission.
 8 4999-c. Meetings and voting.
 9 4999-d. Bylaws.
 10 4999-e. Rules.
 11 4999-f. Committees.
 12 4999-g. Finance.
 13 4999-h. Records.
 14 4999-i. Compliance.
 15 4999-j. Venue.
 16 4999-k. Qualified immunity, defense, and indemnification.
 17 4999-l. Compacting states, effective date, and amendment.
 18 4999-m. Withdrawal, default, and expulsion.
 19 4999-n. Severability and construction.
 20 4999-o. Binding effect of compact and other laws.
 21 § 4999. Definitions. For purposes of this article:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00678-01-5

 S. 351 2

 1 1. "Compacting state" means either of the following:
 2 a. Any state that has enacted the compact and which has not withdrawn
 3 or been suspended pursuant section forty-nine hundred ninety-nine-m of
 4 this article;
 5 b. The federal government in accordance with the commission's bylaws.
 6 2. "Compact" means the solemn covenant of the states to award prizes
 7 for curing diseases enacted in this article.
 8 3. "Non-compacting state" means any state or the federal government,
 9 if it is not at the time a compacting state.
 10 4. "Public health expenses" means the amount of all costs paid by
 11 taxpayers in a specified geographic area relating to a particular
 12 disease.
 13 5. "State" means any state, district, or territory of the United
 14 States of America.
 15 § 4999-a. Establishment of the commission; membership. 1. Upon the
 16 enactment of the compact by six states, the compacting states shall
 17 establish the Solemn Covenant of States Commission.
 18 2. The commission is a body corporate and politic and an instrumental-
 19 ity of each of the compacting states and is solely responsible for its
 20 liabilities, except as otherwise specifically provided in the compact.
 21 3. Each compacting state shall be represented by one member as
 22 selected by the compacting state. Each compacting state shall determine
 23 its member's qualifications and period of service and shall be responsi-
 24 ble for any action to remove or suspend its member or to fill the
 25 member's position if it becomes vacant. Nothing in the compact shall be
 26 construed to affect a compacting state's authority regarding the quali-
 27 fication, selection, or service of its own member.
 28 § 4999-b. Powers of the commission. 1. To adopt bylaws and rules
 29 pursuant to sections forty-nine hundred ninety-nine-d and forty-nine
 30 hundred ninety-nine-c of this article, which shall have the force and
 31 effect of law and shall be binding in the compacting states to the
 32 extent and in the manner provided in the compact;
 33 2. To receive and review in an expeditious manner treatments and ther-
 34 apeutic protocols for the cure of disease submitted to the commission
 35 and to award prizes for submissions that meet the commission's stan