Bill Text: NY A09867 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes digital health care service platforms in the definition of temporary health care services agency; includes the connection of health care personnel to services at a health care entity in the term assign.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-24 - referred to health [A09867 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09867-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9867

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 24, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including digital
          health care service platforms in the definition  of  temporary  health
          care services agency

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 2999-ii of the public health  law,
     2  as  added  by  part X of section 1 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, is
     3  amended and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows:
     4    8. "Temporary health care services agency" or "agency" means a person,
     5  firm, corporation, partnership, association or other entity in the busi-
     6  ness of providing or procuring [temporary employment] services of health
     7  care personnel for health care entities, or of  connecting  health  care
     8  personnel  to health care entities, including via a platform or applica-
     9  tion on the  internet.  Temporary  health  care  services  agency  shall
    10  include  a nurses' registry licensed under article eleven of the general
    11  business law and entities that utilize apps  or  other  technology-based
    12  solutions  to  provide  or  procure  temporary employment of health care
    13  personnel in health care entities. Temporary health care services agency
    14  shall not include: (a) an individual who only engages in  providing  the
    15  individual's  own services on a temporary basis to health care entities;
    16  or (b) a home care agency licensed  under  article  thirty-six  of  this
    17  chapter.
    18    9.  "Assign"  includes  the  connection  of  health  care personnel to
    19  services at a health care entity.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15144-01-4