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A04389 Summary:

BILL NO	A04389
SAME AS	No same as
SPONSOR	Castro
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add S2807-Z, Pub Health L
Increases the wages for nurses and physician's assistants that are bilingual and working in hospitals.

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A04389 Actions:

BILL NO	A04389
02/03/2011	referred to health
01/04/2012	referred to health

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A04389 Floor Votes:

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A04389 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4389
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 3, 2011
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        Introduced by M. of A. CASTRO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
 
        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to increasing bilin-
          gual nurses' and physician's assistants' wages by two dollars per hour
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

 
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2807-Z to read as follows:
     3    § 2807-Z. Multi-lingual nurses and physician's  assistants.  1.    Any
     4  licensed  nurse  or  physician's  assistant  working  in  a hospital who
     5  fluently speaks any language in addition to English shall be entitled to
     6  an increase in compensation by two dollars per hour.
     7    2. For the purposes of this section:
     8    a. "physician's assistant" shall mean any person who is registered  as
     9  a  physician's assistant pursuant to article one hundred thirty-one-B of
    10  the education law;
    11    b. "licensed nurse" shall mean either a licensed  practical  nurse  or
    12  registered  professional  nurse  pursuant to article one hundred thirty-

    13  nine of the education law; and
    14    c. "hospital" shall have the meaning ascribed to it by subdivision one
    15  of section twenty-eight hundred one of this article.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02998-01-1

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