Assembly Bill A11417

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Amends definition of "caregiver" for purpose of obtaining the criminal history information of such person to include caregivers of senior, ill and disabled persons

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A11417 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3950
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง837-n, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A1736, S3531
2013-2014: A1692
2015-2016: A4884
2017-2018: A3645
2019-2020: A3185
2021-2022: A4036
2023-2024: A2435

2009-A11417 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the definition of "caregiver" for the purpose of obtaining the criminal history information of such person to include persons employed to provide 15 or more hours of care per week to senior, ill and disabled persons in the home of such senior, ill or disabled person.

2009-A11417 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  11417

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 11, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Koon) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  the  definition  of
  caregiver  for  the purpose of obtaining the criminal history informa-
  tion of such person

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 837-n of the
executive law, as added by chapter 3 of the laws of 1998, is amended  to
read as follows:
  (a)  "Caregiver"  shall  mean  a person employed to provide fifteen or
more hours of care per week to a child or children, SENIOR  OR  SENIORS,
OR PERSON OR PERSONS HAVING AN ILLNESS OR DISABILITY in the home of such
a  child  or children, SENIOR OR SENIORS, OR PERSON OR PERSONS HAVING AN
ILLNESS OR DISABILITY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09114-01-9

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