Bill Text: NY A08580 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8580 (Prior Session Legislation)

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 88-13)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-14 - REFERRED TO RULES [A08580 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08580-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8580--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    November 16, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, GOTTFRIED, CLARK, ROSENTHAL, BRINDISI,
          BRONSON,  COLTON,  BENEDETTO,  JAFFEE,  MAGNARELLI,  MARKEY,   MILLER,
          WEPRIN,  RIVERA,  RYAN,  SKARTADOS,  SEPULVEDA,  AUBRY, OTIS, SKOUFIS,
          STECK, MAYER, SANTABARBARA, ZEBROWSKI, MOSLEY, ORTIZ, TITUS, ABINANTI,
          BARRON, SEAWRIGHT, LINARES, WALKER,  BICHOTTE,  RICHARDSON,  BRABENEC,
          PALUMBO,  MONTESANO, HYNDMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE,
          ARROYO,  BRENNAN,  BUTLER,  CAHILL,  CERETTO,  COOK,  CRESPO,  CUSICK,
          CYMBROWITZ,  DAVILA,  DenDEKKER, DINOWITZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, FAHY, FARRELL,
          GLICK, GRAF, HOOPER, JOHNS, KEARNS, LAVINE, LIFTON, LUPARDO,  LUPINAC-
          CI,  MAGEE, McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, PAULIN, PERRY, PRETLOW, RAMOS, ROBIN-
          SON, RUSSELL, SALADINO, SCHIMEL,  SIMON,  SIMOTAS,  SOLAGES,  TEDISCO,
          THIELE,  TITONE,  WEINSTEIN, WOERNER, WOZNIAK, WRIGHT -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,  sec.  2  --  reported  and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the "safe
          staffing for quality care act"
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "safe staffing for quality care act".
     3    §  2.  Paragraphs  (a) and (b) of subdivision 2 of section 2805 of the
     4  public health law, paragraph (a) as amended by chapter 923 of  the  laws
     5  of  1973  and paragraph (b) as added by chapter 795 of the laws of 1965,
     6  are amended to read as follows:
     7    (a) Application for an operating certificate for a hospital  shall  be
     8  made  upon  forms  prescribed  by  the department. The application shall
     9  [contain] include the name of the hospital, the kind or kinds of  hospi-
    10  tal service to be provided, the location and physical description of the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13044-02-6