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A00970 Summary:
BILL NO | A00970 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S00850 |
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SPONSOR | Gunther |
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COSPNSR | Zebrowski, Santabarbara, Levenberg, Colton, Eachus, Glick, Aubry, Kelles, Sayegh, Blankenbush, Brabenec, DeStefano, Lemondes |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §167, Lab L; amd §2, Chap of 2022 (as proposed in S.1997-A & A.286-A) | |
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Provides for oversight of the use of mandatory overtime during an emergency. |
A00970 Actions:
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01/11/2023 | referred to labor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/24/2023 | reported referred to codes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/24/2023 | reported referred to ways and means | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/24/2023 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/24/2023 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/24/2023 | rules report cal.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/24/2023 | ordered to third reading rules cal.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/24/2023 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/24/2023 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/24/2023 | REFERRED TO RULES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/30/2023 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S850 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/30/2023 | 3RD READING CAL.59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/30/2023 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/30/2023 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/03/2023 | delivered to governor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/03/2023 | signed chap.27 |
A00970 Committee Votes:
Dinowitz | Aye | Morinello | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Reilly | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Mikulin | Aye | ||||||
O'Donnell | Excused | Tannousis | Aye | ||||||
Lavine | Aye | Curran | Aye | ||||||
Weprin | Aye | Angelino | Aye | ||||||
Hevesi | Aye | Flood | Aye | ||||||
Seawright | Aye | ||||||||
Rosenthal | Aye | ||||||||
Walker | Aye | ||||||||
Vanel | Aye | ||||||||
Cruz | Aye | ||||||||
Carroll | Aye | ||||||||
Simon | Aye | ||||||||
Epstein | Aye | ||||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Fitzpatrick | Nay | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Hawley | Nay | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Blankenbush | Excused | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Norris | Nay | ||||||
Aubry | Aye | Brabenec | Aye | ||||||
Benedetto | Aye | Palmesano | Nay | ||||||
Weprin | Aye | Walsh | Aye | ||||||
Ramos | Aye | DeStefano | Aye | ||||||
Braunstein | Aye | Manktelow | Nay | ||||||
McDonald | Aye | Smullen | Aye | ||||||
Rozic | Aye | ||||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | ||||||||
Joyner | Aye | ||||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
Bronson | Aye | ||||||||
Dilan | Aye | ||||||||
Seawright | Aye | ||||||||
Hyndman | Aye | ||||||||
Walker | Aye | ||||||||
Bichotte Hermel | Aye | ||||||||
Simon | Aye | ||||||||
Cruz | Aye | ||||||||
Heastie | Excused | Barclay | Excused | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Hawley | Nay | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Blankenbush | Excused | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Norris | Nay | ||||||
Aubry | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | Brabenec | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Palmesano | Nay | ||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | Reilly | Aye | ||||||
Paulin | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Lavine | Aye | ||||||||
Lupardo | Aye | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
Thiele | Aye | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
Dickens | Aye | ||||||||
Davila | Excused | ||||||||
Hyndman | Aye | ||||||||
Rozic | Aye | ||||||||
Bronson | Aye | ||||||||
Joyner | Aye | Brabenec | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | DiPietro | Nay | ||||||
Benedetto | Aye | Morinello | Aye | ||||||
Hevesi | Aye | DeStefano | Aye | ||||||
Bronson | Aye | Durso | Aye | ||||||
Rozic | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Steck | Aye | Smullen | Aye | ||||||
Rosenthal | Absent | Bendett | Aye | ||||||
Cruz | Aye | Slater | Aye | ||||||
Reyes | Aye | ||||||||
Ramos | Aye | ||||||||
Jacobson | Aye | ||||||||
Burgos | Aye | ||||||||
Zinerman | Aye | ||||||||
Taylor | Aye | ||||||||
Sillitti | Aye | ||||||||
Tapia | Aye | ||||||||
Lucas | Aye | ||||||||
Alvarez | Aye | ||||||||
Ardila | Aye | ||||||||
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A00970 Floor Votes:
Yes
Alvarez
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Flood
Yes
Kim
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Simpson
Yes
Anderson
Yes
Chandler-Waterm
Yes
Forrest
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Slater
Yes
Angelino
Yes
Chang
No
Friend
Yes
Lee
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ardila
Yes
Clark
Yes
Gallagher
Yes
Lemondes
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Colton
Yes
Gallahan
Yes
Levenberg
Yes
Pirozzolo
Yes
Solages
ER
Barclay
Yes
Conrad
Yes
Gandolfo
Yes
Lucas
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gibbs
Yes
Lunsford
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stern
Yes
Beephan
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Giglio JA
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Raga
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Bendett
Yes
Cunningham
Yes
Giglio JM
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Rajkumar
Yes
Tague
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Curran
Yes
Glick
Yes
Maher
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Tannousis
Yes
Bichotte Hermel
Yes
Darling
Yes
Gonzalez-Rojas
Yes
Mamdani
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tapia
ER
Blankenbush
ER
Davila
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blumencranz
Yes
De Los Santos
Yes
Gray
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Bores
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Gunther
ER
McDonough
ER
Rosenthal D
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
Dickens
Yes
Hawley
Yes
McGowan
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Walker
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Meeks
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Brook-Krasny
No
DiPietro
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Brown E
Yes
Durso
Yes
Jackson
Yes
Miller
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Brown K
Yes
Eachus
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Mitaynes
Yes
Septimo
Yes
Williams
Yes
Burdick
No
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Shimsky
No
Woerner
Yes
Burgos
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jensen
Yes
Norris
Yes
Shrestha
Yes
Zaccaro
ER
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Jones
Yes
Novakhov
Yes
Sillitti
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
Yes
Joyner
Yes
O'Donnell
Yes
Simon
Yes
Zinerman
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Kelles
Yes
Otis
Yes
Simone
Yes
Mr. Speaker
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A00970 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 970 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the labor law relating to the restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1997-A and A. 286-A, in relation to the effectiveness ther- eof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 and subdivision 5 of section 2 167 of the labor law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2022 amend- 3 ing the labor law relating to the restrictions on consecutive hours of 4 work for nurses, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1997-A and 5 A. 286-A, are amended and a new subdivision 7 is added to read as 6 follows: 7 c. where a health care employer determines there is an emergency, 8 necessary to provide safe patient care[, in which case the health care9provider shall, before requiring an on-duty employee to remain, make a10good faith effort to have overtime covered on a voluntary basis, includ-11ing, but not limited to, calling per diems, agency nurses, assigning12floats, or requesting an additional day of work from off-duty employees,13to the extent such staffing options exist]. For the purposes of this 14 paragraph, "emergency", including an unanticipated staffing emergency, 15 is defined as an unforeseen event that could not be prudently planned 16 for by an employer and does not regularly occur; or 17 5. Oversight of the use of mandatory overtime during an emergency. a. 18 The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of health, shall 19 have the authority to promulgate any regulations necessary to carry out 20 the provisions of this section. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04036-01-3A. 970 2 1 b. Any health care employer that utilizes an exception to the limita- 2 tion on mandatory overtime provisions as provided for in subdivision 3 three of this section shall notify the department when such provisions 4 are in use. If a health care employer has utilized the mandatory over- 5 time provisions as provided for in this section for fifteen days or more 6 in a given month, the employer shall report to the department and the 7 department of health: (i) the number of days mandatory overtime was 8 required; (ii) the number of employees that were required to remain on 9 duty in overtime status; and (iii) the dates and times mandatory over- 10 time was required. If a health care employer has utilized mandatory 11 overtime provisions under this section for forty-five days or more in 12 any consecutive three month period the health care employer shall file 13 with the department and the department of health an explanation for why 14 mandatory overtime was required and provide an estimate of when the 15 employer intends to cease the use of mandatory overtime. 16 c. The department shall establish an enforcement officer to oversee 17 investigations into any complaints of violations of this section. 18 d. The health care employer shall, before utilizing mandatory overtime 19 provisions and requiring an on-duty employee to remain, make a good 20 faith effort to have overtime covered on a voluntary basis, including, 21 but not limited to, calling per diems, agency nurses, assigning floats, 22 or requesting an additional day of work from off-duty employees, to the 23 extent such staffing options exist. Failure to engage in a good faith 24 effort pursuant to this section shall be a violation. Any employee who 25 has been required to work in violation of this section may file a 26 complaint with the enforcement officer alleging such violation. Any 27 complaint made pursuant to this paragraph must be made in good faith. 28 6. Upon receipt of a complaint pursuant to subdivision five of this 29 section, the enforcement officer may cause such investigation to be 30 made, in consultation with the department of health and shall notify the 31 employer. If, after investigation, the commissioner determines that an 32 employer has violated this section, the commissioner shall issue to the 33 employer an order directing compliance therewith, which shall describe 34 particularly the alleged violation. A copy of such order shall be 35 provided to any employee who has filed a complaint and to his or her 36 authorized representative. The commissioner [shall] may assess the 37 employer a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars 38 for a first violation, two thousand dollars for a second violation if 39 within twelve months, or three thousand dollars for a third or subse- 40 quent violation of this section if within twelve months; provided, 41 however, that the department may assess an employer a civil penalty of 42 not more than five hundred dollars for any violation of paragraph b of 43 subdivision five of this section. [The employee shall receive an addi-44tional fifteen percent of the overtime payment from the employer for45each violation as damages.] 46 7. The department shall develop and make available on its website a 47 poster containing information for employees on filing a complaint pursu- 48 ant to this section. Every health care employer shall display such post- 49 er in a conspicuous location accessible to employees in the workplace. 50 § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the labor law 51 relating to the restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses, as 52 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1997-A and A. 286-A, is amended 53 to read as follows: 54 § 2. This act shall take effect on the [sixtieth] one hundred eight- 55 ieth day after it shall have become a law.A. 970 3 1 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however, that 2 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date and same 3 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the labor law relating 4 to the restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses, as proposed 5 in legislative bills numbers S. 1997-A and A. 286-A, takes effect; 6 provided further, that paragraph d of subdivision 5 of section 167 of 7 the labor law, as added by section one of this act, shall take effect on 8 the ninetieth day after the enactment of such chapter of the laws of 9 2022.