Bill Text: NY S08278 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of labor, in conjunction with the commissioner of health, to develop a program which incentivizes unemployed individuals to enter jobs in healthcare.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-22 - referred to labor [S08278 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08278-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8278--A

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 1, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sens. KENNEDY, GOUNARDES, MAY, METZGER -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Education  --  committee  discharged  and  said  bill committed to the
          Committee on Labor --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a program to
          incentivize unemployed individuals to enter jobs in healthcare

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  599  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. Establishing eligible training  programs  and  recruitment  in  the
     4  healthcare field. (a) The commissioner, in consultation with the commis-
     5  sioner  of  health, shall maintain a list of positions in the healthcare
     6  field in which there are substantial staff shortages statewide  and  per
     7  region  of the state, that is updated at least once every calendar year.
     8  Such list shall be established within sixty days of the  effective  date
     9  of this subdivision and shall be published on the department's website.
    10    (b) The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of health,
    11  shall  establish  a  program  eligible  under this section that provides
    12  expedited training and certification processes for the healthcare  posi-
    13  tions on the list established pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
    14  sion  that  would be available to claimants eligible under this section.
    15  The department shall make information about such  program  available  on
    16  its website. Such program shall be established within one hundred eighty
    17  days of the effective date of this subdivision.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16165-03-0