Assembly Actions -
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May 25, 2010 |
reported referred to codes |
Apr 19, 2010 |
print number 6492a |
Apr 19, 2010 |
amend and recommit to labor |
Jan 06, 2010 |
referred to labor |
Mar 06, 2009 |
referred to labor |
Assembly Bill A6492
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
GUNTHER
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
Barbara Clark
Nettie Mayersohn
multi-Sponsors
David McDonough
2009-A6492 - Details
2009-A6492 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6492 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 6, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law and the education law, in relation to the hours worked by nurses THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 167 of the labor law, as added by chapter 493 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: S 167. Restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses. 1. When used in this section: a. "Health care employer" shall mean any individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company or any person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or in the interest of the employer, which provides health care services (i) in a facility licensed or operated pursuant to article twenty-eight AND ARTI- CLE THIRTY-SIX of the public health law, including any facility operated by the state, a political subdivision or a public corporation as defined by section sixty-six of the general construction law, or (ii) in a facility operated by the state, a political subdivision or a public corporation as defined by section sixty-six of the general construction law, operated or licensed pursuant to the mental hygiene law, the educa- tion law or the correction law. b. "Nurse" shall mean a registered professional nurse or a licensed practical nurse as defined by article one hundred thirty-nine of the education law who provides direct patient care. c. "Regularly scheduled work hours", including REGULARLY SCHEDULED HOME CARE VISITS, pre-scheduled on-call time and the time spent for the purpose of communicating shift reports regarding patient status neces- sary to ensure patient safety, shall mean those hours AND HOME CARE VISITS a nurse has agreed to work and is normally scheduled to work pursuant to the budgeted hours AND HOME CARE VISITS allocated to the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09456-01-9
co-Sponsors
Barbara Clark
Nettie Mayersohn
Rory Lancman
William Colton
multi-Sponsors
David McDonough
Audrey Pheffer
2009-A6492A (ACTIVE) - Details
2009-A6492A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:A6492A TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law and the education law, in relation to the hours worked by nurses PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To restrict consecutive hours of required work by nurses in the home care setting except in emergencies; does not prohibit a nurse from voluntarily working overtime. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: §1 of the bill amends section 157 of the labor law to add a facility licensed or operated pursuant to article thirty-six of the public health law to the definition of Employer. Adds Regularly scheduled home care visits to the definition of Regularly scheduled work Hours. Adds Home Care visits to the existing law that no health care employer shall require a nurse to work more than that nurse's regularly scheduled work hours or home care visits. Adds a new paragraph 3-a to define the term "emergency" in the article thirty-six (Homecare) setting to also include a situation in which unforeseen events make it necessary for an employer to require a nurse to complete regularly scheduled home care visits in circumstances where the location of the pre-scheduled visits and lack of other staffing options for coverage make it impractical to reschedule the visit or to provide alternative coverage.
2009-A6492A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6492--A 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 6, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, CLARK, MAYERSOHN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the labor law and the education law, in relation to the hours worked by nurses THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 167 of the labor law, as added by chapter 493 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: S 167. Restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses. 1. When used in this section: a. "Health care employer" shall mean any individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company or any person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or in the interest of the employer, which provides health care services (i) in a facility licensed or operated pursuant to article twenty-eight AND ARTI- CLE THIRTY-SIX of the public health law, including any facility operated by the state, a political subdivision or a public corporation as defined by section sixty-six of the general construction law, or (ii) in a facility operated by the state, a political subdivision or a public corporation as defined by section sixty-six of the general construction law, operated or licensed pursuant to the mental hygiene law, the educa- tion law or the correction law. b. "Nurse" shall mean a registered professional nurse or a licensed practical nurse as defined by article one hundred thirty-nine of the education law who provides direct patient care. c. "Regularly scheduled work hours", including REGULARLY SCHEDULED HOME CARE VISITS, pre-scheduled on-call time and the time spent for the purpose of communicating shift reports regarding patient status neces- sary to ensure patient safety, shall mean those hours AND HOME CARE VISITS a nurse has agreed to work and is normally scheduled to work pursuant to the budgeted hours AND HOME CARE VISITS allocated to the
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