Bill Text: NY A00134 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A00134 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00134-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           134

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on People with Disabilities

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
          office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing
          plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages

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

     1    Section 1. Section 13.17 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e)  The  commissioner  shall establish an emergency staffing plan for
     4  state operated facilities in each region. Such emergency  staffing  plan
     5  shall include incentivizing the current workforce through enhanced over-
     6  time  pay,  actions  to  improve  staffing that minimize the transfer of
     7  individuals from their residences and movement of  staff  between  resi-
     8  dences,  and  enhanced  recruitment  initiatives. The emergency staffing
     9  plan shall be in effect when any region's fill level is less than ninety
    10  percent.  The emergency staffing plan shall be made  publicly  available
    11  and shall be published on the office's website.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02105-01-3