Bill Text: NY A06986 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses in the office of children and family services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to labor [A06986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06986-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6986
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 7, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  restrictions  on  consec-
         utive  hours  of  work for nurses in the office of children and family
         services
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  a of subdivision 1 of section 167 of the labor
    2  law, as added by chapter 493 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read  as
    3  follows:
    4    a.  "Health  care  employer"  shall  mean any individual, partnership,
    5  association, corporation, limited liability company  or  any  person  or
    6  group  of  persons  acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or in the
    7  interest of the employer, which provides health care services (i)  in  a
    8  facility  licensed  or  operated pursuant to article twenty-eight of the
    9  public health law, including any facility operated by the state, a poli-
   10  tical subdivision or a public corporation as defined by  section  sixty-
   11  six  of  the general construction law, or (ii) in a facility operated by
   12  the state, a political subdivision or a public corporation as defined by
   13  section sixty-six of the general construction law, operated or  licensed
   14  pursuant  to  the mental hygiene law, the education law, ARTICLE 19-G OF
   15  THE EXECUTIVE LAW, or the correction law.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   17  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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