Bill Text: NY S06913 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for pandemic displaced employees grants to nursing homes and adult care facilities that have hired employees who have been displaced from their place of employment and/or hired temporary staff to assist in providing information on residents to families due to any executive order issued by the governor related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06913 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06913-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6913 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 20, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SERINO -- 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 grants for nursing homes and adult care facilities to hire additional employees during the COVID-19 pandemic; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 2807-ii to read as follows: 3 § 2807-ii. Pandemic displaced employees grants for nursing homes and 4 adult care facilities. 1. (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision 5 of law to the contrary, within funds appropriated for services and 6 expenses related to the outbreak of coronavirus disease of two thousand 7 nineteen (COVID-19) pursuant to chapter fifty of the laws of two thou- 8 sand twenty, the commissioner shall make grants available pursuant to 9 this section to nursing homes and adult care facilities that have hired 10 an employee or multiple employees who have been displaced from their 11 place of employment due to any executive order issued by the governor 12 related to the COVID-19 pandemic. 13 (b) Such grants shall cover eligible costs associated with hiring 14 individuals who have been displaced from their place of employment due 15 to any executive order issued by the governor related to COVID-19, 16 including, but not limited to (i) administrative costs associated with 17 recruiting such individuals for employment, as well as training, certif- 18 ication and orientation; or (ii) salary for temporary employment of such 19 individuals to staff phone lines at such facilities that are solely 20 dedicated to providing information on residents of such facilities to 21 family members of such residents for as long as the governor's declara- 22 tion of a state disaster emergency, pursuant to executive order number 23 two hundred two of two thousand twenty remains in effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08029-01-1S. 6913 2 1 (c) The commissioner may promulgate rules and regulations related to 2 determining eligible costs associated with hiring individuals who have 3 been displaced from their place of employment due to any executive order 4 issued by the governor related to COVID-19, the distribution of grants 5 pursuant to this section, and the responsibilities of nursing homes and 6 adult care facilities that have received such grants. 7 2. Grants shall, as equitably as possible, be distributed among nurs- 8 ing homes and adult care facilities in urban, suburban and rural areas 9 of the state, reflective of the needs of each area due to the COVID-19 10 pandemic. 11 3. Grants made by the commissioner pursuant to subparagraph (i) of 12 paragraph (b) of subdivision one of this section shall not exceed three 13 thousand dollars for each employee hired who had been displaced from 14 their place of employment due to any executive order issued by the 15 governor related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The commissioner is author- 16 ized to establish limits on grants made for each employee hired by a 17 facility, or limits on grants made to each facility, pursuant to subpar- 18 agraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of this section. 19 4. The commissioner shall prepare and submit a report to the governor 20 and the legislature, including to the temporary president of the senate, 21 the minority leader of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the 22 minority leader of the assembly, on or before September first, two thou- 23 sand twenty-two, indicating grant recipients and the amount of each 24 grant awarded pursuant to this section. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the 26 provisions of this act shall expire and be deemed repealed on the day of 27 the expiration of the declared state of emergency relating to the novel 28 coronavirus (COVID-19); and provided, further, that the superintendent 29 of financial services shall notify the legislative bill drafting commis- 30 sion upon the occurrence of the expiration of the state disaster emer- 31 gency declared by executive order number 202 and any further amendments 32 or modifications, and as may be further extended pursuant to section 28 33 of the executive law, in order that the commission may maintain an accu- 34 rate and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of 35 the state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of 36 section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public offi- 37 cers law.
