Bill Sponsors: NY S03691 | 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 25-8)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S03691 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-8)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S03691 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]
