STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7899
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 23, 2016
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        Introduced  by Sens. ORTT, LANZA -- (at request of the Office for People
          with Developmental Disabilities) -- read twice  and  ordered  printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to providing that a
          retired  state  officer or employee shall not be barred from providing
          direct care or other services to an individual for whom those services
          were provided by such person while a state officer or employee
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 73 of the public officers law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 8-c to read as follows:
     3    8-c. Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraphs (i) and  (ii)  of
     4  paragraph (a) of subdivision eight of this section, a former state offi-
     5  cer  or employee who, prior to his or her separation from state service,
     6  was employed performing direct care,  clinical  care,  case  management,
     7  service  coordination  or other related support duties with the state of
     8  New York is not barred from rendering such services  in  the  future  to
     9  individuals  who were receiving such services from that individual prior
    10  to leaving the state service.
    11    § 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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