Bill Text: NY S09314 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes digital health care service platforms in the definition of temporary health care services agency; includes the connection of health care personnel to services at a health care entity in the term assign.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S09314 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09314-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9314

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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 including  digital
          health  care  service  platforms in the definition of temporary health
          care services agency

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 8 of section 2999-ii of the public health law,
     2  as added by part X of section 1 of chapter 57 of the laws  of  2023,  is
     3  amended and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows:
     4    8. "Temporary health care services agency" or "agency" means a person,
     5  firm, corporation, partnership, association or other entity in the busi-
     6  ness of providing or procuring [temporary employment] services of health
     7  care  personnel  for  health care entities, or of connecting health care
     8  personnel to health care entities, including via a platform or  applica-
     9  tion  on  the  internet.  Temporary  health  care  services agency shall
    10  include a nurses' registry licensed under article eleven of the  general
    11  business  law  and  entities that utilize apps or other technology-based
    12  solutions to provide or procure  temporary  employment  of  health  care
    13  personnel in health care entities. Temporary health care services agency
    14  shall  not  include: (a) an individual who only engages in providing the
    15  individual's own services on a temporary basis to health care  entities;
    16  or  (b)  a  home  care  agency licensed under article thirty-six of this
    17  chapter.
    18    9. "Assign" includes  the  connection  of  health  care  personnel  to
    19  services at a health care entity.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15144-01-4