Bill Sponsors: NY A06571 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly

Bill Title: Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 73-11)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-19 - reported referred to ways and means [A06571 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Sponsors

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Assemblymember Richard Gottfried [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-075FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Aileen Gunther [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-100FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Joan Millman [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-052FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Barbara Clark [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-033FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Rhoda Jacobs [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-042FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Crystal Peoples-Stokes [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-141FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-067FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Anthony Brindisi [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-119FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Harry Bronson [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-138FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember William Colton [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-047FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Michael Benedetto [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-082FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Karim Camara [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-043FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-097FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember William Magnarelli [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-129FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Margaret Markey [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-030FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
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