Bill Text: NY A01736 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the definition of "caregiver" for the purpose of obtaining the criminal history information of such person to include persons employed to provide 15 or more hours of care per week to senior, ill and disabled persons in the home of such senior, ill or disabled person.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to governmental operations [A01736 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A01736-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1736
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 11, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the definition of
caregiver for the purpose of obtaining the criminal history informa-
tion of such person
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 837-n of the
2 executive law, as added by chapter 3 of the laws of 1998, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (a) "Caregiver" shall mean a person employed to provide fifteen or
5 more hours of care per week to a child or children, SENIOR OR SENIORS,
6 OR PERSON OR PERSONS HAVING AN ILLNESS OR DISABILITY in the home of such
7 a child or children, SENIOR OR SENIORS, OR PERSON OR PERSONS HAVING AN
8 ILLNESS OR DISABILITY.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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