Bill Text: NY S08272 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for pandemic displaced employees grants to nursing homes and adult care facilities that have hired employees who have been displaced from their place of employment and/or hired temporary staff to assist in providing information on residents to families due to any executive order issued by the governor related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-01 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08272 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08272-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8272

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 1, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to grants for nursing
          homes and adult care facilities to hire  additional  employees  during
          the COVID-19 pandemic; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
          upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2807-ii to read as follows:
     3    §  2807-ii.  Pandemic displaced employees grants for nursing homes and
     4  adult care facilities. 1. (a) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision
     5  of law to the contrary,  within  funds  appropriated  for  services  and
     6  expenses  related to the outbreak of coronavirus disease of two thousand
     7  nineteen (COVID-19) pursuant to chapter fifty of the laws of  two  thou-
     8  sand  twenty,  the  commissioner shall make grants available pursuant to
     9  this section to nursing homes and adult care facilities that have  hired
    10  an  employee  or  multiple  employees who have been displaced from their
    11  place of employment due to any executive order issued  by  the  governor
    12  related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    13    (b)  Such  grants  shall  cover  eligible costs associated with hiring
    14  individuals who have been displaced from their place of  employment  due
    15  to  any  executive  order  issued  by  the governor related to COVID-19,
    16  including, but not limited to (i) administrative costs  associated  with
    17  recruiting such individuals for employment, as well as training, certif-
    18  ication and orientation; or (ii) salary for temporary employment of such
    19  individuals  to  staff  phone  lines  at such facilities that are solely
    20  dedicated to providing information on residents of  such  facilities  to
    21  family  members of such residents for as long as the governor's declara-
    22  tion of a state disaster emergency, pursuant to executive  order  number
    23  two hundred two of two thousand twenty remains in effect.
    24    (c)  The  commissioner may promulgate rules and regulations related to
    25  determining eligible costs associated with hiring individuals  who  have
    26  been displaced from their place of employment due to any executive order

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  issued  by  the governor related to COVID-19, the distribution of grants
     2  pursuant to this section, and the responsibilities of nursing homes  and
     3  adult care facilities that have received such grants.
     4    2.  Grants shall, as equitably as possible, be distributed among nurs-
     5  ing homes and adult care facilities in urban, suburban and  rural  areas
     6  of  the  state, reflective of the needs of each area due to the COVID-19
     7  pandemic.
     8    3. Grants made by the commissioner pursuant  to  subparagraph  (i)  of
     9  paragraph  (b) of subdivision one of this section shall not exceed three
    10  thousand dollars for each employee hired who  had  been  displaced  from
    11  their  place  of  employment  due  to  any executive order issued by the
    12  governor related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The commissioner  is  author-
    13  ized  to  establish  limits  on grants made for each employee hired by a
    14  facility, or limits on grants made to each facility, pursuant to subpar-
    15  agraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of this section.
    16    4. The commissioner shall prepare and submit a report to the  governor
    17  and the legislature, including to the temporary president of the senate,
    18  the  minority  leader of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the
    19  minority leader of the assembly, on or before September first, two thou-
    20  sand twenty-one, indicating grant recipients  and  the  amount  of  each
    21  grant awarded pursuant to this section.
    22    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    23  deemed repealed October 1, 2021.