Assembly Bill A7328

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes a four-year demonstration project to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities and a joint labor-management nursing home staffing workgroup

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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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2023-A7328 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6897
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2828, Pub Health L

2023-A7328 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a four-year demonstration project to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities and a joint labor-management nursing home staffing workgroup to review and assess the impact of such demonstration project.

2023-A7328 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7328
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to establishing a
   four-year demonstration project and workgroup to  reduce  the  use  of
   temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 and paragraph (a) of  subdi-
 vision  2  of  section  2828  of the public health law, paragraph (c) of
 subdivision 1 as amended by section 4 and paragraph (a) of subdivision 2
 as amended by section 1 of part M of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, are
 amended to read as follows:
   (c) [Such] (I) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBPARAGRAPH (II) OF  THIS  PARA-
 GRAPH,  SUCH  regulations  shall  further  include at a minimum that any
 residential health care  facility  for  which  total  operating  revenue
 exceeds  total  operating  and  non-operating expenses by more than five
 percent of total operating and non-operating expenses or that  fails  to
 spend  the  minimum amount necessary to comply with the minimum spending
 standards for resident-facing staffing or direct resident  care,  calcu-
 lated  on an annual basis, or for the year two thousand twenty-two, on a
 pro-rata basis for only that portion of the year during which the  fail-
 ure  of a residential health care facility to spend a minimum of seventy
 percent of revenue on direct resident care, and forty percent of revenue
 on resident-facing staffing, may be held to be a violation of this chap-
 ter, shall remit such excess revenue,  or  the  difference  between  the
 minimum  spending requirement and the actual amount of spending on resi-
 dent-facing staffing or direct care staffing, as the case may be, to the
 state, with such excess revenue which shall be payable, in a  manner  to
 be determined by such regulations, by November first in the year follow-
 ing  the  year  in which the expenses are incurred. The department shall
 collect such payments by methods including, but not limited to, bringing
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11118-02-3
              

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