Bill Text: NY A11136 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts "the COVID-19 extra time for heroes act" providing an additional five days of personal time to public employees who worked as a certified first responder and a healthcare worker and had contact with infected patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-06 - referred to governmental employees [A11136 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11136-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11136

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Perry) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law,  in  relation  to  enacting  "the
          COVID-19 extra time for heroes act"

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

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  "the  COVID-19
     2  extra time for heroes act".
     3    § 2. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section 159-c to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  159-c.  COVID-19  emergency  bonus time. 1. (a) Notwithstanding any
     6  other provision of this article or of any general, special or local  law
     7  to  the  contrary,  any person subject to the provisions of this chapter
     8  who is employed as  a  certified  first  responder  to  perform  regular
     9  services  as  a  healthcare worker in a region and/or county of New York
    10  state during phase one and/or phase two of the reopening  plan  for  the
    11  state  relating to the novel coronavirus disease state disaster shall be
    12  awarded five additional days of paid personal time off. Such  additional
    13  time shall carry forward into calendar years two thousand twenty-one and
    14  two  thousand twenty-two and shall be available for use for the later of
    15  two years after the effective date of this section or one year after the
    16  end of the COVID-19 declared state of emergency.
    17    (b) A person eligible for additional personal  time  off  pursuant  to
    18  paragraph  (a)  of  this  subdivision shall only receive such additional
    19  time once.
    20    2. As used in this section:
    21    (a) "certified first responder" means:
    22    (i) an individual who meets the minimum  requirements  established  by
    23  regulations  pursuant to section three thousand two of the public health
    24  law and who is responsible for the administration of initial  lifesaving
    25  care of sick and injured persons; and
    26    (ii)  a  police or peace officer involved in emergency calls involving
    27  the administration of initial lifesaving care to  persons  suspected  of
    28  being infected with COVID-19; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17414-02-0
        A. 11136                            2

     1    (b)  "healthcare  worker"  means  any  person  working as a physician,
     2  nurse, registered professional nurse, licensed  practical  nurse,  nurse
     3  practitioner,  clinical  nurse  specialist,  certified  nurse assistant,
     4  medical assistant, physician assistant, specialist  assistant,  patholo-
     5  gists'  assistant,  medical  technician, respiratory therapy technician,
     6  medical  technologist,  diagnostic  medical  sonographer,  phlebotomist,
     7  clinical  support  aid,  immediate treatment assistant or other hospital
     8  staff person who had direct contact with patients  or  worked  in  areas
     9  immediately  adjacent  to  patient  rooms during the coronavirus disease
    10  2019 (COVID-19) state of emergency; and
    11    (c) "Coronavirus disease state  disaster"  means  the  state  disaster
    12  emergency  declared  pursuant  to executive order two hundred two of two
    13  thousand twenty.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.