Bill Text: NY S07998 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the minimum rate of home care aide total compensation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-02 - REFERRED TO RULES [S07998 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07998-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7998
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 2, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to home  care  worker
          wage parity
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  3  of
     2  section 3614-c of the public health law, as amended by chapter 56 of the
     3  laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (iv)  for  all  periods on or after April first, two thousand sixteen,
     5  the cash portion of the minimum rate of home  care  aide  total  compen-
     6  sation shall be ten dollars or the minimum wage as laid out in paragraph
     7  [(c)]  (a)  of  subdivision  one of section six hundred fifty-two of the
     8  labor law, whichever is higher. The benefit portion of the minimum  rate
     9  of  home  care  aide  total  compensation shall be four dollars and nine
    10  cents.
    11    § 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of subdivision  3  of  section
    12  3614-c of the public health law, as amended by chapter 56 of the laws of
    13  2016, is amended to read as follows:
    14    (iv)  for  all  periods on or after March first, two thousand sixteen,
    15  the cash portion of the minimum rate of home  care  aide  total  compen-
    16  sation shall be ten dollars or the minimum wage as laid out in paragraph
    17  [(c)]  (b)  of  subdivision  one of section six hundred fifty-two of the
    18  labor law, whichever is higher. The benefit portion of the minimum  rate
    19  of  home care aide total compensation shall be three dollars and twenty-
    20  two cents.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date and  same  manner  as
    22  chapter 56 of the laws of 2016 took effect.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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