Bill Text: NY A05811 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends wage parity for home care workers in upstate New York.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A05811 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05811-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5811

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MEEKS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  extending  wage
          parity for home care workers in upstate New York

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3614-c of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) The minimum rate of home care aide compensation  in  all  counties
     4  other than Bronx, Queens, Kings, New York, Richmond, Nassau, Suffolk and
     5  Westchester shall be:
     6    For  all  periods  on or after October first, two thousand and twenty-
     7  three, the cash portion of the minimum rate  of  home  care  aide  total
     8  compensation  shall  be  the  minimum rate for the applicable region, as
     9  defined in section thirty-six hundred fourteen-f of this article plus an
    10  additional three dollars and twenty-two cents per hour.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10061-01-3