Bill Text: NY S08837 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the definition of "health care personnel" to define the term "temporary services" as health care services contracted for an initial term of less than twenty-four continuous months.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-19 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08837 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08837-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8837

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 19, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 temporary services
          provided by "health care personnel"

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 2999-ii of the public health law,
     2  as added by section 1 of part X of chapter 57 of the laws  of  2023,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    4.  "Health  care  personnel"  means nurses, certified nurse aides and
     5  licensed or unlicensed direct  care  staff  provided  by  the  temporary
     6  health  care  services  agency to provide temporary services in a health
     7  care entity. For such health care personnel, "temporary services"  shall
     8  mean  health  care  services contracted for an initial term of less than
     9  twenty-four continuous months.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14854-02-4