§ 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 p
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