Bill Text: NY S05777 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends wage parity for home care workers in upstate New York.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05777 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05777-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5777 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 15, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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
