Bill Text: NY A10447 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires that COVID-19 contact tracers be representative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities in which they serve to the greatest extent practicable; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-06-17 - SIGNED CHAP.115 [A10447 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10447-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10447--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 18, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Joyner) --
          read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT in relation to requiring that COVID-19 contact tracers be repre-
          sentative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the  communities
          in which they serve to the greatest extent possible; and providing for
          the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. The New York city department of health and  mental  hygiene
     2  and  any  other New York city agency, and any entity within the New York
     3  city health and hospitals  corporation  that  hires  persons  after  the
     4  effective  date  of  this  act  to perform contact tracing pertaining to
     5  COVID-19 infections within the city of New York, shall, to the  greatest
     6  extent  possible,  hire  contact  tracers  who are representative of the
     7  cultural and linguistic diversity  of  the  communities  in  which  they
     8  serve.
     9    §  2.  The  New York city department of health and mental hygiene, and
    10  the New York city health and hospitals corporation shall annually submit
    11  a report on contact tracer worker diversity within the city of New  York
    12  including  outreach efforts to recruit a diverse workforce to the gover-
    13  nor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assem-
    14  bly beginning no later than December 31, 2020.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    16  deemed repealed January 1, 2022.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16409-02-0