BRISPORT, BROUK, COONEY, GOUNARDES, HINCHEY, MAY, PARKER, SEPULVEDA
MLTSPNSR
Amd §599, Lab L
Directs the commissioner of labor, in conjunction with the commissioner of health, to develop a program which incentivizes unemployed individuals to enter jobs in healthcare.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5360
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 20, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, BRISPORT, BROUK, COONEY, GOUNARDES, HINCHEY,
MAY, PARKER, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a program to
incentivize unemployed individuals to enter jobs in healthcare
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 599 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Establishing eligible training programs and recruitment in the
4 healthcare field. (a) The commissioner, in consultation with the commis-
5 sioner of health, shall maintain a list of positions in the healthcare
6 field in which there are substantial staff shortages statewide and per
7 region of the state, that is updated at least once every calendar year.
8 Such list shall be established within sixty days of the effective date
9 of this subdivision and shall be published on the department's website.
10 (b) The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of health,
11 shall establish a program eligible under this section that provides
12 expedited training and certification processes for the healthcare posi-
13 tions on the list established pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
14 sion that would be available to claimants eligible under this section.
15 The department shall make information about such program available on
16 its website. Such program shall be established within one hundred eighty
17 days of the effective date of this subdivision.
18 § 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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