Assembly Bill A6067

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the health care and mental hygiene worker bonuses

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-A6067 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7811
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §367-w, Soc Serv L

2023-A6067 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes any parent or parent of a minor who cares for such minor child with an intellectual or developmental disability within the health care and mental hygiene worker bonuses.

2023-A6067 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6067
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Ways and Means
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the health care
   and mental hygiene worker bonuses
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 2 of section 367-w of the
 social services law, as added by section 1 of part ZZ of chapter  56  of
 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) "Employee" means certain front line health care and mental hygiene
 practitioners,  technicians,  assistants and aides that provide hands on
 health or care services to individuals, without regard  to  whether  the
 person  works  full-time, part-time, on a salaried, hourly, or temporary
 basis, or as an independent contractor, that received an annualized base
 salary of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars or less, to include:
   (i)  [Physician]  PHYSICIAN  assistants,  dental  hygienists,   dental
 assistants,  psychiatric aides, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, phys-
 ical therapists, physical therapy assistants,  physical  therapy  aides,
 occupational  therapists,  occupational therapy assistants, occupational
 therapy aides,  speech-language  pathologists,  respiratory  therapists,
 exercise  physiologists,  recreational therapists, all other therapists,
 orthotists, prosthetists, clinical laboratory technologists and  techni-
 cians,  diagnostic medical sonographers, nuclear medicine technologists,
 radiologic  technologists,  magnetic  resonance  imaging  technologists,
 ophthalmic  medical  technicians, radiation therapists, dietetic techni-
 cians, cardiovascular technologists  and  technicians,  certified  first
 responders,  emergency  medical  technicians, advanced emergency medical
 technicians, paramedics, surgical technologists, all other health  tech-
 nologists and technicians, orderlies, medical assistants, phlebotomists,
 all  other  health  care  support  workers,  nurse  anesthetists,  nurse

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07404-01-3
 A. 6067                             2

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