STATE OF NEW YORK
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5811
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. MEEKS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to extending wage
parity for home care workers in upstate New York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3614-c of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) The minimum rate of home care aide compensation in all counties
4 other than Bronx, Queens, Kings, New York, Richmond, Nassau, Suffolk and
5 Westchester shall be:
6 For all periods on or after October first, two thousand and twenty-
7 three, the cash portion of the minimum rate of home care aide total
8 compensation shall be the minimum rate for the applicable region, as
9 defined in section thirty-six hundred fourteen-f of this article plus an
10 additional three dollars and twenty-two cents per hour.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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