Senate Bill S7888

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to providing information regarding competency exams offered to qualified home health aides

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A8826 - Signed by Governor

  • 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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2021-S7888 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8826
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3613, Pub Health L; amd §2, Chap of 2021 (as proposed in S.1201-A & A.4662-A)

2021-S7888 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes the contact details of department-approved education or training programs that offer competency exams to home health aides available on the department of health's website; amends effectiveness to 180 days.

2021-S7888 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7888 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7888
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 18, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  competency  exams
   offered  to qualified home care services workers residing outside this
   state; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the  public
   health law relating to competency exams offered to qualified home care
   services  workers residing outside this state, as proposed in legisla-
   tive bills numbers S. 1201-A and A. 4662-A, in relation to the  effec-
   tiveness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 7-a of section 3613 of the public  health  law,
 as added by a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the public health law
 relating  to  competency  exams  offered to qualified home care services
 workers residing outside this state, as proposed  in  legislative  bills
 numbers S. 1201-A and A. 4662-A, is amended to read as follows:
   7-a. The department [in consultation with the department of education]
 shall  [maintain a schedule setting forth when] MAKE THE CONTACT DETAILS
 OF DEPARTMENT-APPROVED EDUCATION OR training programs THAT offer  compe-
 tency  exams  to  [qualified home care services workers residing outside
 this state in order to fill any shortage of home care  services  workers
 working  in  this  state. Such schedule shall be made] HOME HEALTH AIDES
 available on the department's website  and  readily  accessible  by  the
 public.
   §  2.  Section  2 of a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the public
 health law relating to competency exams offered to qualified  home  care
 services workers residing outside this state, as proposed in legislative
 bills numbers S. 1201-A and A. 4662-A, is amended to read as follows:
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the [sixtieth] ONE HUNDRED EIGHT-
 IETH day after it shall have become a law.  Effective  immediately,  the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03919-04-2

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