STATE OF NEW YORK
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1201--A
Cal. No. 657
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 8, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, MAY, SERINO -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
-- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to
the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to competency exams
offered to qualified home care services workers residing outside this
state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3613 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 7-a to read as follows:
3 7-a. The department in consultation with the department of education
4 shall maintain a schedule setting forth when training programs offer
5 competency exams to qualified home care services workers residing
6 outside this state in order to fill any shortage of home care services
7 workers working in this state. Such schedule shall be made available on
8 the department's website and readily accessible by the public.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
10 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
11 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
12 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
13 on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03919-03-1
