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A11015 Summary:
| BILL NO | A11015 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S07974 |
| SPONSOR | Gottfried (MS) |
| COSPNSR | Gunther, Millman, Jacobs, Benedetto, Reilly, Gabryszak, John, Lancman, Pheffer, Espaillat, Clark, Markey, Schroeder, Hoyt, Fields, Rosenthal, Destito, Jaffee, Magnarelli, Peoples-Stokes, Colton |
| MLTSPNSR | Alessi, Alfano, Arroyo, Barra, Barron, Benjamin, Bing, Brennan, Brodsky, Brook-Krasny, Burling, Cahill, Camara, Christensen, Cook, Crespo, Cusick, Cymbrowitz, DelMonte, Dinowitz, Englebright, Glick, Heastie, Hooper, Hyer-Spencer, Kellner, Latimer, Lavine, Lifton, Lupardo, Maisel, Mayersohn, McDonough, McEneny, McKevitt, Meng, Miller J, Montesano, Ortiz, Paulin, Perry, Powell, Pretlow, Rabbitt, Ramos, Rivera J, Rivera P, Robinson, Russell, Saladino, Scarborough, Schimel, Skartados, Spano, Stirpe, Sweeney, Thiele, Titone, Titus, Towns, Weinstein, Weisenberg, Wright |
| Amd Pub Health L, generally; amd S97-aaaa, St Fin L | |
| Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment. | |