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A03112 Summary:

BILL NO	A03112
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	Ortiz
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add §171, Lab L
Prohibits direct-care workers from working two double shifts within any two day period.

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A03112 Actions:

BILL NO	A03112
01/28/2019	referred to labor
01/08/2020	referred to labor

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A03112 Committee Votes:

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A03112 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3112
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 28, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
 
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  prohibiting  direct-care
          workers from working two double shifts within any two day period
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a  new  section  171  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  171.  Double shifts for direct-care workers. 1. For the purposes of
     4  this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
     5    a. "direct-care worker" shall mean any employee who is not a nurse  or
     6  other  person licensed, certified or registered under title eight of the
     7  education law whose principal responsibility  is  to  carry  out  direct
     8  patient  care  for  one or more patients or provide direct assistance in
     9  the delivery of patient care.
    10    b. "double shift" shall mean a work day comprised of twice the  length
    11  of a normal working period.
    12    2.  No  direct-care  worker  shall  be permitted to work more than one
    13  double shift in any forty-eight hour period.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07081-01-9

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