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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10447

                   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

        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 practicable; 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 department of health and any other  state  agency,  the
     2  New  York city department of health and mental hygiene and any other New
     3  York city agency, and any entity within the New  York  city  health  and
     4  hospitals  corporation  that  hires  persons after the effective date of
     5  this act to perform contact tracing pertaining  to  COVID-19  infections
     6  within  the  city of New York, shall hire contact tracers who are repre-
     7  sentative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities in
     8  which they serve to the greatest extent practicable.
     9    § 2. The department of health, the New York city department of  health
    10  and  mental  hygiene,  and the New York city health and hospitals corpo-
    11  ration shall annually submit a report on contact tracer worker diversity
    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.
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