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A02264 Summary:
| BILL NO | A02264A |
| SAME AS | No same as |
| SPONSOR | Gottfried (MS) |
| COSPNSR | Millman, Jacobs, Benedetto, Reilly, Gabryszak, John, Lancman, Pheffer, Espaillat, Clark, Markey, Schroeder, Hoyt, Fields, Gunther, Rosenthal, Destito, Jaffee, Magnarelli, Peoples-Stokes, Perry, Stirpe, Paulin, Brodsky, Spano, Englebright, Schimel, Camara, Dinowitz, Ortiz, Ramos, Lavine, Titone, Brook-Krasny, Alessi, Benjamin, Robinson, Scarborough, Barron, Skartados, Arroyo, Powell, Hyer-Spencer, Boyland, Zebrowski, Gibson |
| MLTSPNSR | Alfano, Barra, Bing, Cahill, Calhoun, Christensen, Colton, Crespo, Cusick, Cymbrowitz, Glick, Heastie, Hooper, Kellner, Latimer, Lifton, Lupardo, Maisel, Mayersohn, McDonough, McEneny, Meng, Miller J, Pretlow, Quinn, Rabbitt, Rivera J, Russell, Saladino, Sweeney, Thiele, Towns, Weinstein, Weisenberg |
| Amd Pub Health L, generally; amd S97-aaaa, St Fin L | |
| Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities 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. | |