S05822 Summary:

BILL NOS05822
 
SAME ASSAME AS A02971
 
SPONSORGALLIVAN
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §461-v, Soc Serv L; amd §§2899 & 2899-a, Pub Health L
 
Relates to criminal history records of maintenance employees in adult residential health and assisted living facilities.
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S05822 Actions:

BILL NOS05822
 
03/17/2023REFERRED TO HEALTH
01/03/2024REFERRED TO HEALTH
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S05822 Committee Votes:

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S05822 Floor Votes:

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S05822 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5822
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     March 17, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law and the public  health  law,  in
          relation to criminal history records of maintenance employees in adult
          residential health and assisted living facilities

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
     2  461-v to read as follows:
     3    §  461-v.  Access  to criminal history records. 1. For the purposes of
     4  this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
     5    (a) "Maintenance employee" shall mean any individual to be employed or
     6  used by a provider, including those persons employed through a temporary
     7  employment or staffing agency, and who  provide  supportive  maintenance
     8  services  to  such  facility,  included,  but not limited to beautician,
     9  security, janitorial, laundry, recreational and groundskeeping services.
    10  Such term shall not include volunteers.
    11    (b) "Provider" shall mean an  assisted  living  facility,  residential
    12  health  care  facility,  skilled  nursing  facility or any other type of
    13  facility that provides residential or institutional care to the  elderly
    14  or disabled.
    15    2.  Subject  to  the rules and regulations of the division of criminal
    16  justice services, the department of health shall have access to criminal
    17  history records maintained by such division pertaining  to  any  mainte-
    18  nance  employee  or such persons as the department of health at any time
    19  deems necessary to determine their criminal histories.
    20    3. Every court in which  a  maintenance  employee  of  a  provider  is
    21  convicted  of  a  crime  while  performing their intended duties at such
    22  facility shall, within seven days after either the entry of  a  plea  of
    23  guilty,  or the verdict of the court or a jury, notify the department of
    24  health in writing of such conviction. The department  of  health,  after
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04873-01-3

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     1  receipt  of  such  notification  or at any time the department of health
     2  becomes aware of the conviction of such maintenance worker,  shall  have
     3  the  authority,  granted pursuant to subdivision one of this section, to
     4  have access to the criminal history records of such individual.
     5    4.  Any  request  for  criminal  history  records made pursuant to the
     6  provisions of this section shall be accompanied by the  fingerprints  of
     7  the person who is the subject of such request.
     8    § 2. Subdivisions 3 and 5 of section 2899 of the public health law, as
     9  amended  by  chapter  331  of  the  laws of 2006, are amended to read as
    10  follows:
    11    3. "Employee" shall mean any person  to  be  employed  or  used  by  a
    12  provider,  including  those  persons  employed by a temporary employment
    13  agency, to provide direct care or supervision to patients  or  residents
    14  or  an  individual  who  serves  as a maintenance employee as defined in
    15  section four hundred sixty-one-v of the  social  services  law.  Persons
    16  licensed  pursuant  to title eight of the education law or article twen-
    17  ty-eight-D of this chapter are excluded from  the  meaning  of  employee
    18  under this article. Such term shall not include volunteers.
    19    5.  "Prospective  employee"  shall  mean  any  individual, including a
    20  potential maintenance employee, not currently an employee, who files  an
    21  application  for  employment  as  an  employee  with  a provider and the
    22  provider has a reasonable expectation to  hire  such  individual  as  an
    23  employee.
    24    §  3.  Subdivision  10  of section 2899-a of the public health law, as
    25  amended by section 7 of part RRR of chapter 58 of the laws of  2020,  is
    26  amended to read as follows:
    27    10.  Notwithstanding  subdivision  eleven  of  section  eight  hundred
    28  forty-five-b of the executive  law,  a  certified  home  health  agency,
    29  licensed home care services agency or long term home health care program
    30  certified, licensed or approved under article thirty-six of this chapter
    31  or  a  home  care services agency exempt from certification or licensure
    32  under article thirty-six of this chapter, a hospice program under  arti-
    33  cle forty of this chapter, or an adult home, enriched housing program or
    34  residence for adults licensed under article seven of the social services
    35  law,  or  an assisted living facility licensed under article forty-six-B
    36  of this chapter, or a health home, or any subcontractor of  such  health
    37  home,  who  contracts with or is approved or otherwise authorized by the
    38  department to provide health home services, including enrollees who  are
    39  under  twenty-one years of age, under section three hundred sixty-five-l
    40  of the social services law, except for a health home, or any subcontrac-
    41  tor of such health home, who contracts with or is approved or  otherwise
    42  authorized  by  the  department  to  provide health home services to all
    43  those enrolled pursuant to a diagnosis of a developmental disability  as
    44  defined  in subdivision twenty-two of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene
    45  law; or any entity that provides home and community  based  services  to
    46  enrollees  who  are  under twenty-one years of age under a demonstration
    47  program pursuant to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal social
    48  security act may temporarily approve a prospective  employee  while  the
    49  results  of the criminal history information check and the determination
    50  are pending, upon the condition that the provider  conducts  appropriate
    51  direct observation and evaluation of the temporary employee, while he or
    52  she  is temporarily employed, and the care recipient; provided, however,
    53  that for a health home, or any  subcontractor  of  a  health  home,  who
    54  contracts  with or is approved or otherwise authorized by the department
    55  to provide health home services, including enrollees who are under twen-
    56  ty-one years of age, under section three  hundred  sixty-five-l  of  the

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     1  social  services  law, except for a health home, or any subcontractor of
     2  such health home, who contracts with or is approved or otherwise author-
     3  ized by the department to provide health  home  services  to  all  those
     4  enrolled  pursuant  to  a  diagnosis  of  a  developmental disability as
     5  defined in subdivision twenty-two of section 1.03 of the mental  hygiene
     6  law;  or  any  entity that provides home and community based services to
     7  enrollees who are under twenty-one years of age  under  a  demonstration
     8  program pursuant to section eleven hundred fifteen of the federal social
     9  security  act,  direct observation and evaluation of temporary employees
    10  shall not be required until  July  first,  two  thousand  nineteen.  The
    11  results  of  such  observations  shall  be  documented  in the temporary
    12  employee's personnel file and  shall  be  maintained.  For  purposes  of
    13  providing  such  appropriate  direct  observation  and  evaluation,  the
    14  provider shall utilize an individual employed by such  provider  with  a
    15  minimum  of  one  year's  experience  working  in  an  agency certified,
    16  licensed or approved under article thirty-six  of  this  chapter  or  an
    17  adult  home,  enriched  housing program or residence for adults licensed
    18  under article seven of the social services law, a health  home,  or  any
    19  subcontractor  of such health home, who contracts with or is approved or
    20  otherwise authorized by the department to provide health home  services,
    21  including enrollees who are under twenty-one years of age, under section
    22  three  hundred  sixty-five-l  of  the  social services law, except for a
    23  health home, or any subcontractor of such  health  home,  who  contracts
    24  with or is approved or otherwise authorized by the department to provide
    25  health  home services to all those enrolled pursuant to a diagnosis of a
    26  developmental disability as defined in subdivision twenty-two of section
    27  1.03 of the mental hygiene law; or any entity  that  provides  home  and
    28  community  based services to enrollees who are under twenty-one years of
    29  age under a demonstration program pursuant  to  section  eleven  hundred
    30  fifteen of the federal social security act. If the temporary employee is
    31  working  under  contract  with  another  provider certified, licensed or
    32  approved under article thirty-six or article forty-six-B of  this  chap-
    33  ter,  such contract provider's appropriate direct observation and evalu-
    34  ation of the temporary employee, shall be considered sufficient for  the
    35  purposes of complying with this subdivision.
    36    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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