Assembly Bill A9655

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to temporary services provided by "health care personnel"

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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-A9655 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8837
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2999-ii, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S5150

2023-A9655 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the definition of "health care personnel" to define the term "temporary services" as health care services contracted for an initial term of less than twenty-four continuous months.

2023-A9655 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9655
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2024
                                ___________
 
 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 temporary services
   provided by "health care personnel"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2999-ii of the public health  law,
 as  added  by  section 1 of part X of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, is
 amended to read as follows:
   4. "Health care personnel" means nurses,  certified  nurse  aides  and
 licensed  or  unlicensed  direct  care  staff  provided by the temporary
 health care services agency to provide temporary services  in  a  health
 care  entity. FOR SUCH HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL, "TEMPORARY SERVICES" SHALL
 MEAN HEALTH CARE SERVICES CONTRACTED FOR AN INITIAL TERM  OF  LESS  THAN
 TWENTY-FOUR CONTINUOUS MONTHS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14854-02-4

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