The 2000 Legislative Session proved to be a landmark session regarding health measures for the state of New York. Including the special session called near the close of 1999, the year's session saw the chaptering of the "Health Care Reform Act of 2000," establishing, among other things, the Family Health Plus program to provide health insurance coverage for low-income adults.

    Another measure of Senator Hannon’s, the "Patient Health Information and Quality Improvement Act of 2000," allows patients to access information on physicians, health care plans, and hospitals, and seeks to enhance patient care by closing existing loopholes which have allowed unfit doctors to continue practicing. This bill is often called the " Physicians Profiling Bill" and the sponsor in the Assembly was  the Chair of the Assembly Health Committee, Richard Gottfried of Manhattan.

 A major component of the 2000 health budget was the creation of EPIC +, which expands the existing program to include twice the number of seniors who will save as much as 50% on prescription medicines.

     The years between 1995 and 2000 have  seen many significant health measures sponsored by Senator Hannon become law, including:

Examining, stabilizing, and funding health care services throughout the state through passage of the Health Care Reform Act of 1996,

Establishing the Medicaid Managed Care Program, as well as the Managed Care Bill of Rights

Authorizing certified emergency first responders to use epinephrine auto-injectors (or "epi-pens") to save the lives of those suffering from certain severe reactions,

Implementing New York State’s Tobacco Settlement Plan,

Initiating awareness and prevention of Hepatitis C throughout the state,

Expanding eligibility qualifications for the Child Health Insurance Plan,

Mandating cancer research studies in order to improve statistics regarding cancer incidence and causes within New York state,

Reforming  archaic drug registration laws  which impeded the humane use of narcotic drugs for  seriously ill and terminally patients,

Reorganizing the system of  donating organs and tissue so patients might have an opportunity of a health life