Bill Text: NY A09655 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the definition of "health care personnel" to define the term "temporary services" as health care services contracted for an initial term of less than twenty-four continuous months.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-27 - referred to health [A09655 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09655-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9655

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 27, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to temporary services
          provided by "health care personnel"

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2999-ii of the public health  law,
     2  as  added  by  section 1 of part X of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    4. "Health care personnel" means nurses,  certified  nurse  aides  and
     5  licensed  or  unlicensed  direct  care  staff  provided by the temporary
     6  health care services agency to provide temporary services  in  a  health
     7  care  entity. For such health care personnel, "temporary services" shall
     8  mean health care services contracted for an initial term  of  less  than
     9  twenty-four continuous months.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







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