Assembly Bill A9867

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes digital health care service platforms in the definition of temporary health care services agency

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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-A9867 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9314
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2999-ii, Pub Health L

2023-A9867 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes digital health care service platforms in the definition of temporary health care services agency; includes the connection of health care personnel to services at a health care entity in the term assign.

2023-A9867 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9867
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 24, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including digital
   health care service platforms in the definition  of  temporary  health
   care services agency
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 2999-ii of the public health  law,
 as  added  by  part X of section 1 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, is
 amended and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows:
   8. "Temporary health care services agency" or "agency" means a person,
 firm, corporation, partnership, association or other entity in the busi-
 ness of providing or procuring [temporary employment] SERVICES of health
 care personnel for health care entities, OR OF  CONNECTING  HEALTH  CARE
 PERSONNEL  TO HEALTH CARE ENTITIES, INCLUDING VIA A PLATFORM OR APPLICA-
 TION ON THE  INTERNET.  Temporary  health  care  services  agency  shall
 include  a nurses' registry licensed under article eleven of the general
 business law and entities that utilize apps  or  other  technology-based
 solutions  to  provide  or  procure  temporary employment of health care
 personnel in health care entities. Temporary health care services agency
 shall not include: (a) an individual who only engages in  providing  the
 individual's  own services on a temporary basis to health care entities;
 or (b) a home care agency licensed  under  article  thirty-six  of  this
 chapter.
   9.  "ASSIGN"  INCLUDES  THE  CONNECTION  OF  HEALTH  CARE PERSONNEL TO
 SERVICES AT A HEALTH CARE ENTITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15144-01-4

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