Bill Text: NY A04662 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to competency exams offered to qualified home care services workers residing outside this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-12-10 - approval memo.60 [A04662 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A04662-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4662--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK, FERNANDEZ, OTIS, CLARK, JACKSON, RICH- ARDSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to competency exams offered to qualified home care services workers residing outside this state The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3613 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 7-a to read as follows: 3 7-a. The department in consultation with the department of education 4 shall maintain a schedule setting forth when training programs offer 5 competency exams to qualified home care services workers residing 6 outside this state in order to fill any shortage of home care services 7 workers working in this state. Such schedule shall be made available on 8 the department's website and readily accessible by the public. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 11 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 12 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 13 on or before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03919-02-1
