Bill Title: Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 98-14)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A02954 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Assembly	Assembly Codes Committee: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means	2019-06-11	18	4	0	0	22	Passed	Link	View
Assembly	Assembly Health Committee: Favorable refer to committee Codes	2019-04-30	22	3	0	1	26	Passed	Link	View

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