Assembly Bill A10447A

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires that COVID-19 contact tracers be representative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities in which they serve to the greatest extent practicable

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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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2019-A10447 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8362
Law Section:
Public Health

2019-A10447 - Summary

Requires that COVID-19 contact tracers be representative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities in which they serve to the greatest extent practicable; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

2019-A10447 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10447
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 18, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Joyner) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT in relation to requiring that COVID-19 contact tracers be  repre-
   sentative  of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities
   in which they serve to the greatest extent practicable; and  providing
   for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The department of health and any other  state  agency,  the
 New  York city department of health and mental hygiene and any other New
 York city agency, and any entity within the New  York  city  health  and
 hospitals  corporation  that  hires  persons after the effective date of
 this act to perform contact tracing pertaining  to  COVID-19  infections
 within  the  city of New York, shall hire contact tracers who are repre-
 sentative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities in
 which they serve to the greatest extent practicable.
   § 2. The department of health, the New York city department of  health
 and  mental  hygiene,  and the New York city health and hospitals corpo-
 ration shall annually submit a report on contact tracer worker diversity
 including outreach efforts to recruit a diverse workforce to the  gover-
 nor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assem-
 bly beginning no later than December 31, 2020.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed January 1, 2022.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16409-01-0

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2019-A10447A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8362
Law Section:
Public Health

2019-A10447A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that COVID-19 contact tracers be representative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities in which they serve to the greatest extent practicable; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

2019-A10447A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10447--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 18, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Joyner) --
   read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN  ACT in relation to requiring that COVID-19 contact tracers be repre-
   sentative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the  communities
   in which they serve to the greatest extent possible; and providing for
   the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The New York city department of health and  mental  hygiene
 and  any  other New York city agency, and any entity within the New York
 city health and hospitals  corporation  that  hires  persons  after  the
 effective  date  of  this  act  to perform contact tracing pertaining to
 COVID-19 infections within the city of New York, shall, to the  greatest
 extent  possible,  hire  contact  tracers  who are representative of the
 cultural and linguistic diversity  of  the  communities  in  which  they
 serve.
   §  2.  The  New York city department of health and mental hygiene, and
 the New York city health and hospitals corporation shall annually submit
 a report on contact tracer worker diversity within the city of New  York
 including  outreach efforts to recruit a diverse workforce to the gover-
 nor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assem-
 bly beginning no later than December 31, 2020.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed January 1, 2022.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16409-02-0

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