Assembly Bill A4884

2015-2016 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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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A4884 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง837-n, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A11417
2011-2012: A1736
2013-2014: A1692
2017-2018: A3645
2019-2020: A3185
2021-2022: A4036
2023-2024: A2435

2015-A4884 (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.

2015-A4884 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4884

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 9, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- 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.
                                                           LBD06435-01-5

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