§ 2410. Health research science board. 1. There is hereby established\nin the department the health research science board. The board shall be\ncomprised of seventeen voting members, three non-voting regional members\nand three non-voting ex-officio members as follows:\n (a) twelve voting members shall be scientists each of whom shall have\neither an M.D., D.O., Ph.D., or Dr.P.H. in one of the following fields:\nbiochemistry, biology, biostatistics, chemistry, epidemiology, genetics,\nimmunology, medicine, microbiology, molecular biology, nutrition,\noncology, reproductive endocrinology, or toxicology and must currently\nbe engaged in treating patients or conducting health research. Such\nmembers shall be appointed in the following manner: two shall be\nappointed by the temporary president of the senate and one by the\nminority leader of the senate; two shall be appointed by the speaker of\nthe assembly and one by the minority leader of the assembly; six shall\nbe appointed by the governor;\n (b) the governor shall appoint six regional members, three of whom\nshall serve as full voting members and three of whom shall serve as\nalternative members without voting rights. Such regional members shall\nbe persons who have or have had breast cancer, and shall be actively\ninvolved with a community-based, grass-roots breast cancer organization.\nTwo of such appointments shall be made upon the recommendation of the\ntemporary president of the senate and two shall be made upon the\nrecommendation of the speaker of the assembly. One regional member shall\nbe appointed from each of the following geographic areas of the state:\nLong Island, New York City, the Hudson Valley, Northern New York,\nCentral New York and Western New York. The order of appointments and\nrecommendations for appointments and voting rights shall rotate as\nfollows:\n (i) The governor shall appoint regional members for three year terms\nin the following order:\n (A) Long Island, which member shall have voting rights,\n (B) Central New York, which member shall not have voting rights,\n (C) Hudson Valley, which member shall have voting rights,\n (D) Northern New York, which member shall not have voting rights,\n (E) Western New York, which member shall have voting rights, and\n (F) New York City, which member shall not have voting rights;\n (ii) The governor, upon the recommendation of the temporary president\nof the senate, shall appoint regional members for three year terms in\nthe following order:\n (A) Hudson Valley, which member shall not have voting rights,\n (B) Northern New York, which member shall have voting rights,\n (C) Western New York, which member shall not have voting rights,\n (D) New York City, which member shall have voting rights,\n (E) Long Island, which member shall have voting rights, and\n (F) Central New York, which member shall not have voting rights; and\n (iii) The governor, upon the recommendation of the speaker of the\nassembly, shall appoint regional members for three year terms in the\nfollowing order:\n (A) Western New York, which member shall have voting rights,\n (B) New York City, which member shall not have voting rights,\n (C) Long Island, which member shall not have voting rights,\n (D) Central New York, which member shall have voting rights,\n (E) Hudson Valley, which member shall not have voting rights, and\n (F) Northern New York, which member shall have voting rights;\n (c) the governor shall appoint three non-voting ex officio members to\nthe board, one of whom shall be the commissioner, or his or her\ndesignee, one of whom shall be the commissioner of environmental\nconservation, or his or her designee, and one of whom shall be the\ndirector of the Cornell University Institute for Comparative and\nEnvironmental Toxicology, or his or her designee; and\n (d) the governor shall appoint one voting member who shall be a person\nwho has or has survived breast cancer and one voting member who shall be\na person who has or has survived prostate or testicular cancer.\n The governor shall designate the chair of the board. The governor,\ntemporary president of the senate, minority leader of the senate,\nspeaker of the assembly, and minority leader of the assembly may solicit\nrecommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the\nNational Institutes of Health, the Federal Agency For Health Care Policy\nand Research, and the National Academy of Sciences for appointments or\nrecommendations for appointments to the board.\n 2. All members shall serve for terms of three years and may be\nreappointed, such terms to commence July first and expire June\nthirtieth; provided, however, that of the scientific members first\nappointed, three such members, one appointed by the governor, one\nappointed by the temporary president of the senate and one appointed by\nthe speaker of the assembly, shall be appointed for terms of one year,\nand three such members, one appointed by the governor, one appointed by\nthe temporary president of the senate, and one appointed by the speaker\nof the assembly shall be appointed for a term of two years.\n The board shall convene on or before September first, nineteen hundred\nninety-seven.\n 3. Any member, after notice and an opportunity to be heard, may be\nremoved by the governor for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.\nAny member who fails to attend three consecutive meetings of the board,\nunless excused by formal vote of the board, shall be deemed to have\nvacated his or her position.\n 4. Any vacancy in the board shall be filled for the unexpired term in\nthe same manner as the original appointment.\n 5. A majority of the voting members of the board shall constitute a\nquorum for the transaction of any business or the exercise of any power\nor function of the board.\n 6. Members of the board shall not receive compensation for their\nservices as members, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary\nexpenses incurred in the performance of their duties.\n 7. For the purposes of this section the following counties shall\nconstitute the following geographic areas:\n (a) Long Island: the counties of Nassau and Suffolk.\n (b) New York City: the counties of Kings, Queens, Richmond, New York\nand Bronx.\n (c) Hudson Valley: the counties of Westchester, Rockland, Putnam,\nOrange, Dutchess, Ulster, Greene, Columbia, Sullivan and Delaware.\n (d) Northern New York: the counties of Albany, Clinton, Essex,\nFranklin, Fulton, Herkimer, Hamilton, Montgomery, Otsego, Rensselaer,\nSaratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren and Washington.\n (e) Central New York: the counties of Broome, Cayuga, Chemung,\nChenango, Cortland, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego,\nSeneca, Schuyler, St. Lawrence, Tioga, Tompkins and Wayne.\n (f) Western New York: the counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus,\nChautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, Wyoming, Livingston,\nMonroe, Ontario, Steuben and Yates.\n