Bill Text: NY A02435 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2435

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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A02435 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02435-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2435

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. COLTON, MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          COOK, RIVERA, SIMON -- 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    §  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.
                                                                   LBD02842-01-3